Re: GNUnification
Joey Hess
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> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > UMSDOS is a hideous system. I'm currently working on code which will
> > allow Linux to drop support for it altogether. Basically, it's far
> > superior to use a file on an MS-DOS filesystem as a device on which you
> > create an ext2 filesystem. Hopefully I can sneak this code in under
> > the 2.1 codefreeze (since UMSDOS has major problems in the development
> > kernels) but I've been far too busy recently.
>
> This is already quite doable with the loopback device:
[snip demo]
> I think there may even be a kernel patch to let it boot off such files (not
> sure).
Sorry, I was unclear. I wrote that patch for 2.0, and I want to get it
sorted for 2.1 this afternoon.
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