Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:19:51 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <19980928161951.B286@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199809272059.NAA29095@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 08:59:02PM %2B0000 References: <8655.906831168@critter.freebsd.dk> <199809272059.NAA29095@usr05.primenet.com>
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Hi, I want to display my complete ignorance and cluelessness (especially with all things related to kernels and devices and booting), by asking a silly question. It's sort of related to this thread but sort of not... well at least I think so. On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 08:59:02PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Which the kernel has to know anyway, in order to mount things. > The structures are there, and they're not going to go away, no > matter how ugly their being there is deemed. Well, until we > support discardable ELF section tags for unused kernel components. Why doesn't the kernel always use an MFS as root? I've seen a ton of traffic go by on these lists about the magic needed to mount root partitions, and it would seem to me (in my small mind), that using an MFS, like the boot floppies and PicoBSD, which would always be a `known' quantity, would make a lot of these problems go away. Maybe it would have to be a special kind of MFS, rootfs, which worked a bit differently to a normally MFS. Maybe it should only be able to hold mount points. Maybe it could be a memory image loaded directly by the boot blocks, which contained the kernel (and maybe lkm's?). Maybe the image could be stored on a DOS (e.g.) partition/slice? Maybe the image could then be used as backing store if the MFS needed it? Don't laugh, I really don't understand most of this. Don't even understand most of the terms. I just don't like having questions running around in my head... Regards, -Jeremy -- | "In this world of temptation, I will stand for what is right. --+-- With a heart of salvation, I will hold up the light. | If I live or if I die, if I laugh or if I cry, | in this world of temptation, I will stand." -Pam Thum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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