From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 02:58:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1DE16A4CF; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:58:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED90D43D3F; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:58:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) ESMTP/inet6 id i0JAwSC03191; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:58:28 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) In-Reply-To: <20040119095453.GA43280@pc5.i.0x5.de> References: <20040118235148M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20040119092819.GA41159@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040119095453.GA43280@pc5.i.0x5.de> X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 Emacs/21.3 X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20030322(IM144) Lines: 23 From: Makoto Matsushita To: list@rachinsky.de Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:58:26 +0900 Message-Id: <20040119195826X.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> cc: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org cc: re@freebsd.org cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: will@csociety.org Subject: Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:58:31 -0000 list> What about splitting the floppies? Splitfs support is already on list> the 4.9-RELEASE disks. That would be a viable option, but the great downside of using splitfs is that all of splitted chunks are required for all users. In the current configuration, drivers.flp is an option; if you don't need to use modules in drivers.flp, you only need two floppies. If the kernel and/or mfsroot image are splitted into, say, three floppies, we have to have three floppies. Yes, floppies are so cheap to buy, but sometimes not handy you know. I believe that some of my friends said to me that "hey, I'm so tired to write THREE floppy images, it's so slow!" It would be technically easy to introduce splitfs for kernel/mfsroot (it is already there), but it also introduce an important design change. We should have enough time to consider that we decide the 3rd floppy image treats a mandatory one. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita