atom feed32 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-currentRe: Current is Really Broken(tm)
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Alfred PerlsteinSep 23, 1998 1:38 am 
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Terry LambertSep 23, 1998 6:03 pm 
David HollandSep 24, 1998 1:52 pm 
Archie CobbsSep 24, 1998 6:20 pm 
Bruce EvansSep 25, 1998 6:37 pm 
Poul-Henning KampSep 25, 1998 11:31 pm 
Justin T. GibbsSep 26, 1998 9:52 am 
Poul-Henning KampSep 26, 1998 10:32 am 
David HollandSep 26, 1998 7:45 pm 
David HollandSep 26, 1998 8:03 pm 
Poul-Henning KampSep 26, 1998 10:56 pm 
David HollandSep 26, 1998 11:59 pm 
Poul-Henning KampSep 27, 1998 12:21 am 
Greg LeheySep 27, 1998 1:11 am 
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David HollandSep 27, 1998 1:32 am 
Terry LambertSep 27, 1998 1:58 pm 
Terry LambertSep 27, 1998 2:40 pm 
Jeremy LeaSep 28, 1998 7:19 am 
Eivind EklundSep 28, 1998 9:29 am 
Poul-Henning KampSep 28, 1998 10:49 am 
Julian ElischerSep 28, 1998 12:24 pm 
Larry S. LileSep 28, 1998 12:39 pm 
Poul-Henning KampSep 28, 1998 12:51 pm 
Larry S. LileSep 28, 1998 1:56 pm 
Terry LambertSep 28, 1998 4:47 pm 
David HollandSep 28, 1998 4:55 pm 
Subject:Re: Current is Really Broken(tm)
From:Poul-Henning Kamp (ph@critter.freebsd.dk)
Date:Sep 28, 1998 10:49:50 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-current

Why doesn't the kernel always use an MFS as root? I've seen a ton of traffic go by on these lists about the magic needed to mount root partitions, and it would seem to me (in my small mind), that using an MFS, like the boot floppies and PicoBSD, which would always be a `known' quantity, would make a lot of these problems go away.

Yes.

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.

You've never seen an AIX ?

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