Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: devfs | Date | 9 Jan 1998 15:28:58 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.x7d8i2b5rc.fsf@metal.iinet.net.au>, Michael O'Reilly <michael@metal.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>As a sanity check: How many people would seriously want to run NTFS as >root filesystem?
I want to run a MSDOS filesystem as a root filesystem; it's a cheaper filesystem for a floppy than ext2 is, and the kernels I build only have support for MSDOS, iso9660, and ext2 in them. (And, even with ext2, having a devfs (with major and minor numbers, of course; a devfs without those is, I'm afraid, useless for me.) means I don't have to carry around nearly as many devices in /dev for booting a install/ recovery floppy.)
____ david parsons \bi/ Mind you, if 2.2 is 100k larger than 2.0, this will all \/ be moot.
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