Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:31:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@amber.org> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New microdrives from IBM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071925400.21617-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <19981007100029.30754@amber.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote: > I think it's extreemly important to focus on a GOOD flash file > system---I'd settle for something a'la RT-11 and contiguous > files---that doesn't have huge impact on flash re-write lifetimes. Hmmm.. What's an RT-11? > BTW, for those worrying about cramming it onto a 1.44Mb floppy for > reasons of flash size, I went looking, and it's damned hard to find > anything under 2MB of flash any more, and many many many boards support > up to 72MB of FlashDisk. While I understand the need to conservce > space---if not the need to spell correctly <wink>---I think that it is > important to focus on what the embedded world needs, and make sure we > can STRIP it to fit on a floppy, but not that we obsess over making > sure it fits in all forms. Good points! This touches one very important issue: currently used way to build the target picobsd system is as inflexible and inconvenient as it could ever get.. :-( We need _some_ way of making it more modular, and easier to modify, without requiring a total recompile each time... Any ideas are welcome (about half a year ago I tried to create a picobsd version which used separate binaries and shared libs... and failed miserably - the whole thing was much bigger and consumed much more memory...). Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071925400.21617-100000>