From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 7 10:27:00 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAB22982 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 10:27:00 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA22976 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 10:26:58 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA26037; Mon, 7 Aug 95 11:19:00 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508071719.AA26037@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: bare bones kernel To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 11:18:59 MDT Cc: swallace@eng.uci.edu, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Aug 6, 95 06:19:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Steven Wallace wrote: > > > > > > > Could someone explain to me why you must have "options FFS" and > > > > > > A kernel without a filesystem? That won't work. > > > > How about a kernel with a non-VFS file system? > > That would be a nice party trick, but would removing all those > dependencies really be worth it? It's all of two files, plus the cruft in the struct file that needs to die anyway, since it's the wrong way to support UNIX (POSIX) domain sockets in the first place. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.