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Re: DragonFly-2.1.1.370.ge6b76 master nrelease Makefile


To: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:38:23 +0100

Am 11.01.2009 20:05, schrieb Simon 'corecode' Schubert:
> Michael Neumann wrote:
>> Simon 'corecode' Schubert schrieb:
>>> Michael Neumann wrote:
>>>> commit e6b76e2251a2fe77df66a3323eade18a5657b8d2
>>>> Author: Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de>
>>>> Date: Sat Jan 10 23:06:50 2009 +0100
>>>>
>>>> Make the USB stick image boot the root filesystem
>>>> read only, just like the boot CD does. Also use 15%
>>>> instead of 15MB more space. This leads to an image
>>>> which contains a 97% full filesystem.
>>>
>>> Why would you use a readonly file system if you can do it rw? I think
>>> that's the big advantage of a USB stick - DragonFly to go.
>>
>> Only issue is fsck, which can take a while for low-speed USB (1 MB/sec).
>> Nevertheless, I reverted it back to r/w.
>
> Oh, I see. Well, once hammer booting is stabilized, we can even use a
> hammer volume :)

If it's a 30 GB USB stick then, well, yes :)

Regards,

Michael



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