Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:01:54 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> Cc: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net>, Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Message-ID: <199801220401.UAA08010@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:25:16 PST." <19980121172516.29013@micron.mini.net>
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> Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI <blkirk@float.eli.net> stands accused of saying: > > Couldn't this be overcome by including DOS FS support and using some > > space out of C:\TEMP . Swapfiles could be accomplished in the sameway > > with vnode support. (Leo's getting Largerrrr!) > > Two problems : you loose the advantages of a read-only setup if you use a > hard drive :) And Secondly, msdosfs doesn't have permissions. > > Not to mention that if it did, you could still reboot into DOS and midify > the files. This is not secure. If you want to use HD space, just make a FFS > partition. Not really, I am think that it will be a great selling tool if we can boot from disk and use a swap partition. Cheers, Amancio
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