Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 18:48:29 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: phk@freefall.cdrom.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: using only DOS filesystem Message-ID: <9507110048.AA28255@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507100720.AAA29166@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jul 10, 95 00:20:30 am
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> > > > Here's something to try on a lark: boot and run FreeBSD using only > > native DOS file partitions, possibly creating a ufs file partition > > in a large DOS file w/ the vn pseudo-driver. > > Been there, done that. > > You make a kernel with a MFS as root, and you can do it without > any problems. > > Performance SUCKS! Rewrite the MSDOSFS to keep the FAT in core. Read the CMU paper comparing DOSFS and UFS under MACH... there are *many* was to cheat. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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