On Mon, 05 Apr, 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Is there a good reason that we use a minix filesystem for root.bin? I > don't know of any fundamental reason that we couldn't use ext2; I've > put ext2 filesystems on floppies before without trouble. Changing > from minix to ext2 would allow us to drop minix support from the boot > floppy kernel, moving it to the modules disk. > > Moving minix off the boot floppy kernel would save about 13k, > compressed. This is looking more and more valuable. Try it. ext2 is a hard disk file system. If you use it on a floppy disk you will lose about 10% of the avaliable space. -- I consume, therefore I am
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