Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:50:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <16117.907005011@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:29:31 %2B0200." <19980928182931.41626@follo.net>
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>> Why doesn't the kernel always use an MFS as root? I've seen a ton of traffic >> go by on these lists about the magic needed to mount root partitions, and it >> would seem to me (in my small mind), that using an MFS, like the boot >> floppies and PicoBSD, which would always be a `known' quantity, would make a >> lot of these problems go away. > >Yes. > >I believe the main reason it doesn't do that is that too many people >believe it too radical. I know a number of developers (hi phk!) would >like to have the actual device probes controlled from a very small >userland running out of a ramdisk - personally, I think this might be >a good architecture, but as I haven't seen an implmentation yet, I'm >not quite sure. You've never seen an AIX ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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