> Do you mean why doesn't the ctl file accept partition commands? > You can always use fs(3) for that. But usb root is not very > practical anyway, at least with uhci, because of a stubborn > bug in the driver which makes transfers very very slow. Now > there's ohci support I would be interested to know if that works > at more like normal usb speed.
you're assuming that i want to continue to do i/o once i've booted. :-) the basic problem is that, e.g., ich9r boards have no pata at all. it used to be easy to boot from CF or a DOM. but that's becoming more of a problem. booting from usb might be the only cheep solid-state choice. geoff pointed out that usb/disk pulls in a lot of stuff and might need some work to run in the kernel. so perhaps i don't fully appreciate how interconnected /dev/usb?, usb/usbd, and usb/disk. i was under the impression that usb/disk was just a bit of glue that turns an endpoint into a block device. - erik
