[haiku-development] Re: FileMapDisk aka IMAGE.BE
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:22:09 +0200 CEST
> "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > It doesn't. That was just a bug in the way BeOS worked, apart
> > > > from
> > > > the extra layer, there is nothing to worry about.
> > > Fine then, I'll try the simple way first, and slap you if it
> > > doesn't
> > > work ;)
> > Actually now that I think of it, there is one more reason to bypass
> > the
> > VFS:
> > it would avoid requiring all the supported fs addons to have to be
> > loaded at boot. While for regular systems they will be loaded
> > anyway
> > it
> > doesn't matter much, on media needing a floppy image it means
> > bumping
> > up the tgz size...
> > So ?
>
> I really can't imagine many people to boot Haiku via floppy, anymore.
> I
> only have one (laptop) left with a floppy at all, anyway. So at least
> that doesn't seem to be a good reason :-)
Well, everyone booting from CD actually boot from floppy...
> One advantage of doing it this way, however, would be to be able to
> support file systems that are otherwise not supported by the system;
> adding file system support to the boot loader is definitely less work
> than writing a real one.
Indeed, once in the kernel it just needs to use the offsets into the
partition regardless being able to mount it.
François.
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