From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 24 15:56:30 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from netau1.alcanet.com.au (ntp.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F4037B407; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au (mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au [139.188.23.1]) by netau1.alcanet.com.au (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01496; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:56:19 +1000 (EST) Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.2-32 #37641) with ESMTP id <01K9WUTFOL00VFIFMB@cim.alcatel.com.au>; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:55:54 +1000 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f9OMuEr47898; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:56:14 +1000 (EST envelope-from jeremyp) Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:56:14 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 dokern.sh In-reply-to: <20011002015114T.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:51:14AM -0700 To: ru@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan Hubbard Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: ru@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan Hubbard , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20011025085614.S75481@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <20011002095946.A71912@sunbay.com> <20011002004926I.jkh@freebsd.org> <20011002114601.K74839@sunbay.com> <20011002015114T.jkh@freebsd.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:51:14AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> I was just pointing out that lack of MSDOSFS option will lack the >> ability to install from the DOS partition, which is essential part >> of installation, no? > >Thank you Ruslan, but this I already knew since it's pretty obvious to >even the slowest reader that removing MSDOSFS will remove this as an >installation option. How about only removing part of MSDOSFS? For installation purposes, you only need to be able to read from the various filesystems (other than UFS). A read-only FS implementation will normally be significantly smaller than a R/W implementation (boot2 includes a R/O UFS implementation in less than 8KB). It should be possible to produce a cut-down module that is capable of reading an 8+3 FAT filesystem that is significantly smaller than the existing MSDOSFS module. Do enough people do installs from an MS-DOS FAT filesystem to make implementing this worthwhile? Of potentially more widespread use: The recent split of NFS into client and server modules means that supporting NFS installs now translates to less kernel bloat. Would it be worthwhile implementing a read-only NFS client? Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message