Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:25:51 +0100 From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040109072551.GA74970@pc5.i.0x5.de> In-Reply-To: <3FFE5211.5040606@freebsd.org> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <200401091400.40550.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3FFE5211.5040606@freebsd.org>
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* Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> [2004-01-09 00:02 -0700]: > Well, except when mfsroot.gz becomes too large to fit on a single > floppy. Right now it is about 90k away from that. What happens when > mount_nfsv4 gets put on there? John Baldwin and I already spent a > day over the holiday break making the mfsroot.gz image fit given the > new requirements created by having a dynamic root. What happens the > next time that it overflows? It's not like the driver floppies where > you can dike more stuff to another disk; this is a single image. Do > we come up with a method for having multiple, segmented images? Who > writes the code to do that? Shouldn't lib/libstand/splitfs.c do this? Nicolas
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