Re: automatic vnd'ing on kernel boot

2010-03-02 Thread Toru Nishimura
Eric Haszlakiewicz said; I doubt that would do anything useful. ...[SNIP]... At that point you're not using the FAT FS as a filesystem, but just as a complicated disklabel. No better than FAT, yes, right. PLS look at plus side. Toru Nishimura / ALKYL Technology

config(5) break down

2010-03-02 Thread Masao Uebayashi
I want to slowly start breaking down config(5) files (sys/conf/files, sys/**/files.*) into small pieces. The goal is to clarify ownership of files; lines like "file aaa.c bbb | ccc" are to be changed into "file aaa.c" (ownership) and "ccc: bbb" (dependency). Because in the modular world one file

Re: automatic vnd'ing on kernel boot

2010-03-02 Thread Eric Haszlakiewicz
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:29:04PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote: > Someone once said internal NAND controller chip fabricated in modern > sillicon storage, like CompactFlash, SDMMC and others, are optimized > for FAT FS runtime dynamism. It might be a myth. As It's not > disclosed how the controll

Re: automatic vnd'ing on kernel boot

2010-03-02 Thread Toru Nishimura
Hi, thanks for your comment. Michael van Elst replies; Can you please explain in how far a single file and vnd layer on top is any different to just the image (maybe in a partition) on the medium? I understand it is nice to have a system image on a FAT formatted USB stick for portability and e