ext2fs would be handy, but it makes things harder on the Windows users.
I think vfat is the best thing to do. I use vfat in my kernel -- it's
15K in 2.2, 16K in 2.4. UPX would turn that into .003 bytes, right :-)
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Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 18:03 -0700
> >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > > This still doesn't explain why Debian is
> > > trying to do the following for their boot floppies.
> > >
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0102/msg00435.html
> > > ~ Build in crams and ramfs. We're going to boot off of a cramfs initrd
> > > ~ and then set up and pivot_root into a ramfs filesystem.
> >
> >I;m not really familiar with the details, but I think the cramfs initrd
> >is both disk- and ram-efficient, and pivoting the root means switching
> >the root over to a writeable filesystem while maintaining access to the
> >old filesystem. For a boot floppy there is no customization, but it is
> >convenient to have a writeable root.
>
> Jeff,
> You have a better grasp of the details than I do. :)
> If I have this right, cramfs isn't flexible enough for our needs. That
> means that Midori isn't useful for a base, and we're back to vfat or minix
> for long file name support. The MontaVista rep. seemed to think ext2 wasn't
> out of the question for our needs.
>
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