On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote: > > I wrote: > > > I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why > > > we added the "root-2" floppy? Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick > > > us over the edge into "root-3" land? > > > > We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to get the floppy > > loading > > work correctly before i do this rather cosmetic thing working. And > > hfs/hfsplus > > without ide/scsi driver is not really all that usefull, isn't it. > > Actually, it's quite useful -- for writing to mac-formatted (HFS) floppy > disks... as in for saving the log files for later debugging when all else has > failed.
In emergency, you can always use `tar cvf /dev/fd0 ...'. Who needs a file system, if he has tar? ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds