From owner-freebsd-small Wed Oct 7 10:26:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03216 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03206 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA26532; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:31:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:31:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Christopher G. Petrilli" cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New microdrives from IBM In-Reply-To: <19981007100029.30754@amber.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote: > I think it's extreemly important to focus on a GOOD flash file > system---I'd settle for something a'la RT-11 and contiguous > files---that doesn't have huge impact on flash re-write lifetimes. Hmmm.. What's an RT-11? > BTW, for those worrying about cramming it onto a 1.44Mb floppy for > reasons of flash size, I went looking, and it's damned hard to find > anything under 2MB of flash any more, and many many many boards support > up to 72MB of FlashDisk. While I understand the need to conservce > space---if not the need to spell correctly ---I think that it is > important to focus on what the embedded world needs, and make sure we > can STRIP it to fit on a floppy, but not that we obsess over making > sure it fits in all forms. Good points! This touches one very important issue: currently used way to build the target picobsd system is as inflexible and inconvenient as it could ever get.. :-( We need _some_ way of making it more modular, and easier to modify, without requiring a total recompile each time... Any ideas are welcome (about half a year ago I tried to create a picobsd version which used separate binaries and shared libs... and failed miserably - the whole thing was much bigger and consumed much more memory...). Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message