Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 11:37:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: imp@rover.village.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, pechter@lakewood.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! Slick Message-ID: <199707221837.LAA13746@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707220530.PAA27322@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 22, 97 03:00:20 pm
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> > So I think it is a cool idea, so long as it isn't mandatory :-) > > The problem is that if it's not mandatory, there's no point in doing > it. If we support reading from ufs filesystems anyway, there's > nothing really gained from having FAT support. This is why I can't > understand Bruce suggesting Yet Another Filesystem just for the > bootstrap. Well, it would help with the MIPS, PPC, and Alpha ports, for sure. The PReP spec requires a DOS partition table, though it allows 32 bit sector offsets. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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