Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:56:09 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@incunabulum.net>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/msdosfs msdosfs_vfsops.c Message-ID: <200707231956.17778.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <46A47C62.10507@incunabulum.net> References: <200707230710.l6N7AHd8008351@repoman.freebsd.org> <46A47C62.10507@incunabulum.net>
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--nextPart32923567.baHMEqLoTh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > Make using msdosfs as the root file system sort of work: > > In case anyone is wondering 'Why the hell would anyone wish to do > this?' consider the case of various embedded systems and small > devices where the medium is pre-formatted as MS-DOS. or where the > format on the medium is tied to MS-DOS for other reasons. And it'll > also let you boot FreeBSD from your digital camera if your hard disk > fails. Also good for USB flash disks since paritioning them in a way that keeps=20 Windows happy AND allows you to boot FreeBSD is.. non-obvious. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart32923567.baHMEqLoTh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGpIJJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAs14AJ4lOgyw6raNUfV7ixJzwndVU5PpNgCdFqd0 lnRxn3QDyYpvxJdBAhFwh4U= =ePDu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart32923567.baHMEqLoTh--
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