Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 11:52:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: IDE -> ATA DISK |
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
> >> Note that I'm not advocating that either IDE or SCSI have to be > >> selected, just that if neither is selected, then few of the file > >> systems make any sense... > > > It's not that easy. You can have ext2 filesystems on ROM devices... > > Only if the ROMfs is selected, whether "M" or "Y" is irrelevant...
ext2 and romfs are separate, independant filesystems.
> > ...or a network block device. > > You sure of that? I understood that NFS didnae use any of the other > file systems as it's a file system in its own right...
nfs is a filesystem. nbd is a block device. They are independant.
Matthew.
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