Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Nov 1998 16:17:40 +0100 (CET) | From | Horvath Akos <> | Subject | Re: why umsdos? |
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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I don't like umsdos personally. Have you considered using a file on the > msdos filesystem with an ext2 filesystem on it instead? I have a machine > with its root filesystem mounted on /dev/loop0. A little playing with > initrd makes this quite easy. This means you have no need for a untfs > (and in my case, no need for a uadfs).
Five reasons to not to use this: - You can not resize an ext2fs image - repartitioning is better, because FIPS, presizer or Partition Magic can resize msdos partitions - You can not read az ext2fs image from dos - It will be slow (ok, umsdos is slow too) - A newbie will never be able to set up a looproot distribution - Looproot is problematic and untested (for example it does not work in vfat but works on an msdos partition)
I think, a general ums-like pseudo-ext2-fs over not only umsdos, but all non unix-compatible fs were very good and useful for the linux community.
MaXX
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