Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:20:19 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Cassady <bcassady@mindspring.com> Cc: small@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Extending md(4) to allow it use pre-compressed disk image Message-ID: <3B531443.56C3D67@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107160800040.3754-100000@ah-soo.mindspring.com>
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bill@mindspring.com wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > >...After that compressed image could be put > > into the floppy or other media, loaded using loader(8) and accessed > > through md(4) as usually. The only difference is that it is impossible > > to write into resulting disk. > > > > I would like to know if there is enough interest in integrating this > > feature into base system, please let me know what do you think about > > it. > > A voice from Pico user, whose interest is in a shirt-pocket operating > system capable of dial-in and plugging into a network, asks > that as far as Pico is concerned what difference would it make? > > As far as I have discovered, all bytes on the Pico disk are permanent > except for the ppp configuration. > > Although Pico will mount msdos and ext2fs floppy disks, it constantly > complains when reading dos disks that it can't write to them because > they are write protected. (!) If I mount an ext2 disk Pico page-faults > as soon as I do an ls... > > So, to clarify my question, assuming funtionality to be first > consideration and speed/memory secondary, and assuming also that > the mount problem would be fixed, within the size limitations of a > floppy, wouldn't this limitation of your feature have no big negative > effect for Pico? No negative affect actually. The proposed new feature doesn't remove any existing ones, so PicoBSD or any other FreeBSD sub-project could use it as it sees fit. > I certainly appreciate all the work that has gone into the Pico project, > and only dip into it from time-to-time. And I am very glad to see that > things are moving forward. Nice to hear. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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