Re: Gnumach/Hurd on 8 MB Boxes?

[Farid Hajji <farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net>]

> > You don't need Linux partitions, you just need to boot Linux (or anything
> > that knows ext2fs, which FreeBSD does now too).
> Um, but given how badly FreeBSD mangles Linux ext2 filesystems when it
> crashes, which happens remarkably often when using the ext2fs driver, I
> don't think I'd want to trust it with the Hurd's filesystem...
I agree on this. That was the reason I wanted to avoid ext2fs completely
and use UFS (FFS) filesystems with ufs.static instead. It seems to work
okay here and I'll stick with UFS for now until we get some bootdisks
with fdisk, mke2fs and stuff.

-Farid.