Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 10:21:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: dirkx@webweaving.org (Dirk-Willem van Gulik) Cc: eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su, famzon@bigfoot.com, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable CD's Message-ID: <200110061721.f96HLKb66068@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10110060824340.27909-100000@kim.ispra.webweaving.org> from Dirk-Willem van Gulik at "Oct 6, 2001 8:25:26 am"
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> > What I've found to work well as a 'quick' hack is to simply make an UFS > inside a file with newfs/vnconfig and burn that onto a CD - and threat is > as a diskless machine. That feels very much like a normal file system and > you need to change little. this seems to be different from what was requested in the original email, which seems to be "how to use a CDRW as a read/write writable filesystem". In any case, i tried the UFS-over-CD trick (actually something more trivial, such as burning an umounted filesystem onto a CD. Small disks at the time...) some time ago with different success. On some version of FreeBSD (2.2.x i seem to remember) it did work, whereas 3.x with the same image would quickly panic during or after mounting the filesystem, even if mounted readonly. The problem was, i thought, the OS not being too happy for being unable to write something onto the disk. Has the situation changed ? cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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