From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 12 12:29:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7F015244 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:29:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA41213; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:29:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA16286; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:29:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001122029.NAA16286@harmony.village.org> To: Marcin Cieslak Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:20:47 +0100." References: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:29:48 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Marcin Cieslak writes: : Once can easily read them with low-level pccardc interface. : In general, flash cards are not meant to be written too often, : so I belive we won't put a real filesystem on them. : Just a kernel and mfsroot image perhaps? Well, there is mfs, which is a DOS FAT that has had an unfortunate collision with logged file systems and I regret to say that there were survivors. One could use lfs if it worked since it tries to avoid writes to the same page over and over, which is what kills normal flash cards. Having them available as at least a read only device would be useful. The pccardc interface is a pain to use :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message