Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:43:49 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <20020126194349.A1641@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <3C5353D2.ACC62BD@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:11:46PM -0800 References: <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> <3C51CD33.4E69B204@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020126003431.A77505@HAL9000.wox.org> <y4wuy46bza.uy4@localhost.localdomain> <20020126164014.B810@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C5353D2.ACC62BD@mindspring.com>
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > > That would be a neat idea, and it couldn't be hard to implement. > > After all, we can already create filesystems in memory. Nevertheless, > > there are too many levels of indirection. It would only be a > > marketing gimmick, not something suitable for long-term use. At some > > point, the installer needs to work. > > Yes. Plus it could not really be safely read/write, unless > you mapped out the sectors in one large file, and only > modified them after getting their location from the NTFS. > > There is currently no capability for getting the file sector > list for a file, within FreeBSD (interestingly, Windows has > the ability to do this, as an OS service). I'm not claiming this would be efficient or safe, but couldn't you just map an NTFS file to memory and steal the rest of the code from mfs? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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