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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....

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Jeffrey S. Sharp   (XorAxAx)
jss@subatomix.com
http://www.subatomix.com/

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