Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:38:32 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net>, Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Message-ID: <19980121203832.14278@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <199801220401.UAA08010@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 08:01:54PM -0800 References: <19980121172516.29013@micron.mini.net> <199801220401.UAA08010@rah.star-gate.com>
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I'm a big fan of "X terminal on a disk." err... ahhh... CD. Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> stands accused of saying: > > Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI <blkirk@float.eli.net> stands accused of saying: > > > Couldn't this be overcome by including DOS FS support and using some > > > space out of C:\TEMP . Swapfiles could be accomplished in the sameway > > > with vnode support. (Leo's getting Largerrrr!) > > > > Two problems : you loose the advantages of a read-only setup if you use a > > hard drive :) And Secondly, msdosfs doesn't have permissions. > > > > Not to mention that if it did, you could still reboot into DOS and midify > > the files. This is not secure. If you want to use HD space, just make a FFS > > partition. > > Not really, I am think that it will be a great selling tool if we can > boot from disk and use a swap partition. > > Cheers, > Amancio -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."
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