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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil option -m
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:57:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d222a32d99cd6e44274c7ca2367d08d@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5FF01BA4-294A-4EEA-AED9-BBECF6A67642@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>

> I have looked contents in /boot/bootfs.paq of 9front.
> I like the booting process: flexible, elegant and probably powerful.

it's another stage of bootloading which requires a number of things to be built-in
to the kernel.  in this sense, it's like initrd.

if we were to instead make the local file servers (fossil+venti, kfs, cwfs, etc.)
idiomatic enough in their arguments, it should be easy enough to drive them
with the same boot code, that needn't bloat the kernel, or require fancy
memory reclaim.

also,

> let's make it "fsmb".  that way we need not enumerate file servers.
> i've always found listing things in mb is easier to work out.

i take it back.  $fsname^mb is idiomatic enough to automate.
sorry for the noise.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-18 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-18  5:03 arisawa
2012-08-18  5:30 ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-18  5:40   ` John Floren
2012-08-18 10:04     ` arisawa
2012-08-18 11:14       ` Richard Miller
2012-08-18 14:57       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-08-18 16:23         ` cinap_lenrek
2012-08-18 17:11           ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-18 18:05             ` cinap_lenrek
2012-08-18 18:17               ` Richard Miller
2012-08-18 11:12   ` Richard Miller
2012-08-18 11:36     ` David du Colombier
2012-08-18 13:02       ` Richard Miller
2012-08-18 14:53         ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-19  9:04           ` David du Colombier
2012-08-19 15:04             ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-19 16:06               ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-19 16:08                 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-08-19 16:15                   ` Richard Miller
2012-08-19 16:17                 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]   ` <CAL4LZyimqPZVQGmTDXzKBJsJNUaLsCEQBZz4qY8YSCb7pMkypA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-08-18 15:00     ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-18 15:18       ` erik quanstrom

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