Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:21:24 -0600 From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> To: "freebsd-small" <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New approach to picobsd Message-ID: <005f01bf66f4$05a499f0$0dea5e18@mmcable.com> References: <3888D5CF.329989@achtung.com> <20000122145538.A390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <20000124122024.A4574@horus.co.jyu.fi> <20000125103358.U2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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> Unfortunately, the current PicoBSD system is oriented towards > floppies. This has the great disadvantage, at least in the current > implementation, that each crunched executable repeats the library > contents. For a flash memory system it would make more sense to have > a single executable, which might be larger than a single floppy. Another thing: using MFS for the root filesystem is bad for flash. (A) Big MFS sizes on big flash disks make memory requirements too high; (B) There is no need to make it possible for one to remove the flash disk after booting. But then there's the problem of /var and /tmp.... =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com http://www.subatomix.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a20 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> 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
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