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M. Warner Losh wrote:

>In message: <41DB8FD3.3030101@elischer.org>
>            Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
>: > I think that a big amount of this could be reduced by using simple
>: > arrays rather than lists which are more memory efficient...
>: 
>: but that just puts the problem a bit further away.
>
>We have to do it.  If you don't have a file system to store a file,
>then you cna't do this at all.  When you are fscking /, you don't have
>a file system.  And if you have finished, nothing is yet mounted r/w.
>

I'm suggesting two version..
one tha tuses RAM  and oen that uses files..
the filesystem that the files are written to would be done first with 
the RAM version..

We already do that here, though for different reasons.

>
>Warner
>  
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