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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:46:07 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Design a journalled file system
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102270944400.90317-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200102270342.UAA10733@usr05.primenet.com>

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > > I'm not sure that is true. You can always load a kld from loader(8).
> > > 
> > > Not from an XFS root filesystem, you can't.
> > 
> > It is so very fortunate, then, that neither loader nor the kld need be
> > in the root filesystem, eh? :-)
> 
> Great, the most important part of my system has to be on some
> other FS type because otherwise I can't boot.
> 
> I would prefer to have my boot loader, kernel, and modules live
> on the safest FS available to me.  If that's not XFS, why use
> it?  If it is XFS, then why use something else, except for the
> license making me?

Terry, if it really matters that XFS root filesystems are bootable, then
someone will write an XFS reader module for libstand. Personally, I don't
think it will ever matter that much.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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