Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 10:03:41 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <199608181603.KAA00347@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 14 Aug 1996 03:56:53 PDT
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: a) Write a filesystem which understands tar files natively. Note: there may : be a slight performance penalty for folks running with their root : partitions mounted on a TARFS - perhaps we could note this somewhere. I have heard rumors from my Linux buddies that they have implemented a read only tar file system to load the initial modules from their kernel. Just boot the tar file, and it will find the rest sort of idea (actually, I beleive it uses ramdisk or other ram image to store the tar file). I beleive the tar ball is freed from memory when the real file system is finally available. Warner
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