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From(H. Peter Anvin)
SubjectRe: Merging EXT2 and El Torito
Date9 Mar 1998 14:25:43 GMT
Followup to:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.980309060129.6091D-100000@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
By author:    "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> I think a better option would be to create an 'El Torito' boot program
> that lives in the 'special' blocks.  The root filesystem can be ISO9660
> without problems.  Make the 'special' directories (/dev, for example)
> loopback ext2 filesystems which are stored on cd as ISO9660 files.
> Alternatively, you could use devfs.
>   --Scott
> 

No need to.  ISO 9660/RockRidge handles device nodes just fine.

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