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Re: Results of different filesystems for root.bin



On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:42:19AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I tested putting the same rootdisk onto different filesystems, and
> then compressed each of them with gzip -9.  The results were as
> follows:
> 
> 	minix	713k
> 	ext2	717k
> 	romfs	712k
> 
> Based on these results, I see no reason to prefer any particular
> filesystem for the rootdisk; thus, to me it would make most sense to
> use ext2 since it's required to be in the kernel for other reasons.

Seems so. Let's get rid of minix.

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es


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