Re: Why minix for root.bin?
pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu (Ben Pfaff) writes:
> 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.
But using ext2 instead of minix means root.bin will be bigger. I haven't
tested how much bigger, but we may end up loosing space.
Another idea that returns from the old ages: has anyone tried using
"read-only fs"?
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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