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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes:
> > If you become a bored person requiring entertainment, it might be quite
> > interesting to create a read-only tarfs for use as a root file system
> > loaded in an md device.
>=20
> What's wrong with iso9660 filesystems created by mkisofs?=20

(picking one such reply seemingly at random)

Good point.  With the RR extensions, that should work just fine.=20

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research