Re: rootdisk using romfs
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 12:05:27PM +0000, bug1 wrote:
> using romfs it is
>
> 944498 Bytes compressed
> 2100224 Bytes uncompressed.
>
> Thats about 6K savings on the disk, and 71K when uncomressed by using
> romfs instead of ext2.
>
> I figure ext2 is being used more for its convienience, but when boot
> floppies changes to use a modular kernel this seems like the way to go.
Actually it's being used because a working root filesystem has to be
read/write mountable.
It's possible to kludge around this by making ext2fs's in RAM at boot time
for the parts that need to be writable, but for potato that's not at all
likely.
Maybe it is a possibility for woody though.
--
James Deikun, Techie(tm), CSI Multimedia
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