From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jan 24 21:28:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.mmcable.com (fe1.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342151529C for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:28:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jss@subatomix.com) Received: from mail.subatomix.com ([24.94.234.115]) by mail1.mmcable.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:28:43 -0600 Received: from Spooler by mail.subatomix.com (Mercury/32 v2.16); 24 Jan 00 23:32:12 -0600 Received: from spooler by mail.subatomix.com (Mercury/32 v2.16); 24 Jan 00 23:31:45 -0600 Received: from quark (24.94.234.13) by mail.subatomix.com (Mercury/32 v2.16); 24 Jan 00 23:31:42 -0600 Message-ID: <005f01bf66f4$05a499f0$0dea5e18@mmcable.com> From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" To: "freebsd-small" References: <3888D5CF.329989@achtung.com> <20000122145538.A390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <20000124122024.A4574@horus.co.jyu.fi> <20000125103358.U2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Subject: Re: New approach to picobsd Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:21:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Unfortunately, the current PicoBSD system is oriented towards > floppies. This has the great disadvantage, at least in the current > implementation, that each crunched executable repeats the library > contents. For a flash memory system it would make more sense to have > a single executable, which might be larger than a single floppy. Another thing: using MFS for the root filesystem is bad for flash. (A) Big MFS sizes on big flash disks make memory requirements too high; (B) There is no need to make it possible for one to remove the flash disk after booting. But then there's the problem of /var and /tmp.... =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com http://www.subatomix.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a20 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> !E W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message