Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:13:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, imp@rover.village.org, pechter@lakewood.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! Slick Message-ID: <199707230143.LAA04467@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707221837.LAA13746@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 22, 97 11:37:23 am"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > The problem is that if it's not mandatory, there's no point in doing > > it. If we support reading from ufs filesystems anyway, there's > > nothing really gained from having FAT support. This is why I can't > > understand Bruce suggesting Yet Another Filesystem just for the > > bootstrap. > > Well, it would help with the MIPS, PPC, and Alpha ports, for sure. > The PReP spec requires a DOS partition table, though it allows 32 > bit sector offsets. DOS partition table != FAT bootstrap filesystem. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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