Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 16:45:06 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: Using space in a DOS filesystem Message-ID: <199508220645.QAA26716@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>The vn driver is a no-go if we want to boot from this, which is the >whole idea. Remember, the aim here is to provide a safer way to plonk >a FreeBSD filesystem onto a disk covered in a FAT filesystem. You would need to have the vn device and various tools on the boot device. This is acceptable for demos and installations, but not so good for use. >> To test it you could create a slice inside the DOS slice containing the >> file. I think fdisk allows bogus things like that. Not recommended. >Understood. Committing the bogus slice to the partition table looks better than ever. It allows booting from a normal slice. Anything else has large bootstrapping problems. >> The vn driver method already has water :-). Try your file that hides >> the sectors as a vn device. It can't hurt to have the sectors contiguous >Will do - as far as I understand, I can't disklabel a vn device, so it's >not the final answer... vn devices can be both sliced and labeled. They just can't be booted from. Bruce
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