From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jul 16 9:20:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from kalaid.f2f.com.ua (kalaid.f2f.com.ua [62.149.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D440937B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Mail-In.Net (borey.f2f.com.ua [62.149.0.24]) by kalaid.f2f.com.ua (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6GGMhj85960; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:22:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (root@[212.35.189.174]) by Mail-In.Net (8.11.3/8.H.Z) with ESMTP id f6GGLHI03556; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:21:18 +0300 (EEST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6GGK3D51021; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:20:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3B531443.56C3D67@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:20:19 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Cassady Cc: small@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Extending md(4) to allow it use pre-compressed disk image References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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