From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 28 16:56:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28721 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yonge.cs.toronto.edu (yonge.cs.toronto.edu [128.100.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA28714 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dholland@cs.toronto.edu) Received: from qew.cs.toronto.edu ([128.100.2.15]) by yonge.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <86535-25414>; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:56:06 -0400 Received: by qew.cs.toronto.edu id <37768-5346>; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:55:49 -0400 Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) From: David Holland To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:55:48 -0400 Cc: reg@shale.csir.co.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980928182931.41626@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Sep 28, 98 12:29:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <98Sep28.195549edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > [root ramdisk] > > 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. Linux has something like this for loading modules before mounting root, and it's gorss. If you were really going to try to have a ramdisk root, it should just be a framework for mounting other things and not have any data on it. IMO. Something like the AmigaDOS "assign", or a cross between a union mount and a symlink would then be nice so you can have /bin actually reference /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /disk1/stuff/bin, and whatnot, all transparently. But this rapidly stops being Unix. -- - David A. Holland | (please continue to send non-list mail to dholland@cs.utoronto.ca | dholland@hcs.harvard.edu. yes, I moved.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message