From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 28 10:57:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21371 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21354 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:57:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA16119; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:50:12 +0200 (CEST) To: Eivind Eklund cc: Jeremy Lea , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:29:31 +0200." <19980928182931.41626@follo.net> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:50:11 +0200 Message-ID: <16117.907005011@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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. > >Yes. > >I believe the main reason it doesn't do that is that too many people >believe it too radical. I know a number of developers (hi phk!) would >like to have the actual device probes controlled from a very small >userland running out of a ramdisk - personally, I think this might be >a good architecture, but as I haven't seen an implmentation yet, I'm >not quite sure. You've never seen an AIX ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message