on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:09:38AM -0600, Stefan Srdic (linuxbox@telusplanet.net) wrote: > I though that its possible to use the ext2 filesystem to use with > initrd? Is there an advantage of using the minixfs filesystem over > the ext2 filesytem in this application? minixfs is reputed to have lower overhead, though I haven't reearched or tested this myself. I believe it has to do with root reserved and superblocks. You can build a few images at 1400 x 1024 bytes and format them with minix, ext2fs, and msdos/vfat to see what the relative merits are. I've always formatted RAM and floppy w/ minixfs rather than ext2 when using a non-DOS filesystem. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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