From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 22 18:44:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA14505 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA14483 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA04467; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:13:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707230143.LAA04467@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! Slick In-Reply-To: <199707221837.LAA13746@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 22, 97 11:37:23 am" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:13:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, imp@rover.village.org, pechter@lakewood.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > The problem is that if it's not mandatory, there's no point in doing > > it. If we support reading from ufs filesystems anyway, there's > > nothing really gained from having FAT support. This is why I can't > > understand Bruce suggesting Yet Another Filesystem just for the > > bootstrap. > > Well, it would help with the MIPS, PPC, and Alpha ports, for sure. > The PReP spec requires a DOS partition table, though it allows 32 > bit sector offsets. DOS partition table != FAT bootstrap filesystem. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[