32 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-currentRe: Current is Really Broken(tm)| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Alfred Perlstein | Sep 23, 1998 1:38 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Sep 23, 1998 2:29 am | |
| Alfred Perlstein | Sep 23, 1998 3:42 am | |
| Peter Wemm | Sep 23, 1998 4:24 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Sep 23, 1998 4:35 am | |
| Bruce Evans | Sep 23, 1998 5:02 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Sep 23, 1998 6:03 pm | |
| David Holland | Sep 24, 1998 1:52 pm | |
| Archie Cobbs | Sep 24, 1998 6:20 pm | |
| Bruce Evans | Sep 25, 1998 6:37 pm | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Sep 25, 1998 11:31 pm | |
| Justin T. Gibbs | Sep 26, 1998 9:52 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Sep 26, 1998 10:32 am | |
| David Holland | Sep 26, 1998 7:45 pm | |
| David Holland | Sep 26, 1998 8:03 pm | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Sep 26, 1998 10:56 pm | |
| David Holland | Sep 26, 1998 11:59 pm | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Sep 27, 1998 12:21 am | |
| Greg Lehey | Sep 27, 1998 1:11 am | |
| Greg Lehey | Sep 27, 1998 1:26 am | |
| David Holland | Sep 27, 1998 1:32 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Sep 27, 1998 1:58 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Sep 27, 1998 2:40 pm | |
| Jeremy Lea | Sep 28, 1998 7:19 am | |
| Eivind Eklund | Sep 28, 1998 9:29 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Sep 28, 1998 10:49 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Sep 28, 1998 12:24 pm | |
| Larry S. Lile | Sep 28, 1998 12:39 pm | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Sep 28, 1998 12:51 pm | |
| Larry S. Lile | Sep 28, 1998 1:56 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Sep 28, 1998 4:47 pm | |
| David Holland | Sep 28, 1998 4:55 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) | |
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| From: | David Holland (dhol...@cs.toronto.edu) | |
| Date: | Sep 28, 1998 4:55:27 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-current | |
[root ramdisk]
I believe the main reason it doesn't do that is that too many people believe it too radical. I know a number of developers (hi phk!) would like to have the actual device probes controlled from a very small userland running out of a ramdisk - personally, I think this might be a good architecture, but as I haven't seen an implmentation yet, I'm not quite sure.
Linux has something like this for loading modules before mounting root, and it's gorss.
If you were really going to try to have a ramdisk root, it should just be a framework for mounting other things and not have any data on it. IMO. Something like the AmigaDOS "assign", or a cross between a union mount and a symlink would then be nice so you can have /bin actually reference /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /disk1/stuff/bin, and whatnot, all transparently.
But this rapidly stops being Unix.
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