Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:46:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102270944400.90317-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200102270342.UAA10733@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I'm not sure that is true. You can always load a kld from loader(8). > > > > > > Not from an XFS root filesystem, you can't. > > > > It is so very fortunate, then, that neither loader nor the kld need be > > in the root filesystem, eh? :-) > > Great, the most important part of my system has to be on some > other FS type because otherwise I can't boot. > > I would prefer to have my boot loader, kernel, and modules live > on the safest FS available to me. If that's not XFS, why use > it? If it is XFS, then why use something else, except for the > license making me? Terry, if it really matters that XFS root filesystems are bootable, then someone will write an XFS reader module for libstand. Personally, I don't think it will ever matter that much. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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