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Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-)
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > > > > Call be crazy, but I think I'd almost like to move the "real" kernel to
> > > > > > /boot/kernel, providing the search paths were ok.
> > > > >
> > > > > You're absolutely nuts.
> > > >
> > > > Can we get postings in -current back on track?  I'm seeing enough
> > > > Brian Feldman posts to justify a filter.
> > >
> > > The "mini FFS" used by the boot blocks doesn't know how to traverse
> > > subdirectories.
> >
> > Actually it does.
> 
> Then someone added it more recently than the original version
> from CSRG.
> 
>                                         Terry Lambert
>                                         terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

I think you're confusing two bits of code..

the miniFFS came via me, from the MACH bootblocks

the stuff from CSRG  (via Bill Jolitz) was junked in 92.


julian

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