From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 10:42:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27879 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:42:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.scancall.no (www.scancall.no [195.139.183.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA27872 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no) Received: from super2.langesund.scancall.no [195.139.183.29] by www with smtp id KGPUIPQJ; Wed, 25 Nov 98 18:42:00 GMT (PowerWeb version 4.04r6) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981125194144.009a08e0@mail.scancall.no> X-Sender: Marius@mail.scancall.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:41:44 +0100 To: Robert Nordier , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) From: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811251255.OAA16516@ceia.nordier.com> References: <50633.911996966@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >The umsdos solution was generalized to a file system layer approach >which could accommodate a FreeBSD slice on any (not necessarily >MS-DOS) file system which supports 255 character filenames. This is a good point, which I forgot in my posting. While the OS/2 EA's have the advantage of utilising an existing standard, this approach would offer us the ability to transparently use any filesystem. Though the 255 character filename requirement should go. We can stick the long filenames in a seperate file or EA. --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message