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Re: woody boot floppies



"John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu> writes:

> reiserfs is _big_ when compiled statically into the kernel.
> 
> soif reiserfs is simply added to the kernel, evenwith bzImage, it it too
> large. this requires things to be taken out. to minimize impact, i have
> made it a seperate flavour, considiering that ReiserFS needs to be
> patched into the linux.org kernel anyway.

Ew and ick.  I hesitate to make ever more flavors.  It's bad enough to
have all these flavors for different i386 hardware, but once we start
making flavors for *features* the users wants -- ew.

Seems better to try to work thru an initrd -- can't Reiser be
modularized?

I don't know if I wanna even attempt this officially, however.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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