From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail8.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.75]:52944 "EHLO mail8.fw-bc.sony.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133494AbWCFQdP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:33:15 +0000 Received: from mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com [43.134.1.211]) by mail8.fw-bc.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k26GfTHO009198; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:41:29 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([43.134.85.105]) by mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k26GfS5M024093; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:41:28 GMT Message-ID: <440C6638.7000909@am.sony.com> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:41:28 -0800 From: Geoff Levand User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zhuzhenhua CC: linux-mips , Hiroyuki Machida Subject: Re: does the linux support rootfs on vfat? References: <50c9a2250603042217l475e84pc9ab7ce87c40eb76@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50c9a2250603042217l475e84pc9ab7ce87c40eb76@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10736 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips zhuzhenhua wrote: > if in my product based ide disk, i want to it to support the > u-disk(with vfat fs), and can i set the root fs as vfat too? > if use vfat as rootfs, what's disadvantage of the selection? > See these threads, 'Posix file attribute support on VFAT', which disscusses using VFAT for a root fs: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/8/76 http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/8/326 -Geoff