From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:01:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:17352 "EHLO lug-owl.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133469AbWCEIBt (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:01:49 +0000 Received: by lug-owl.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7E082F0040; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:09:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:09:58 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: zhuzhenhua Cc: linux-mips Subject: Re: does the linux support rootfs on vfat? Message-ID: <20060305080958.GX19232@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: zhuzhenhua , linux-mips References: <50c9a2250603042217l475e84pc9ab7ce87c40eb76@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="o7OlDVNVrpEggBeY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50c9a2250603042217l475e84pc9ab7ce87c40eb76@mail.gmail.com> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.12.3lug-owl X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i 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: 10731 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: jbglaw@lug-owl.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips --o7OlDVNVrpEggBeY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2006-03-05 14:17:56 +0800, 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? Well, most notably you won't have device nodes. Maybe a ram-backed filesystem mounted to /dev/ could solve that, but you'd probably need an initrd for that to do. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 = _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg = _ _ O f=C3=BCr einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=C3=BCrger" | im Internet! | i= m Irak! O O O ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)= ); --o7OlDVNVrpEggBeY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFECpzWHb1edYOZ4bsRApTNAJ9nnHoDz7FlJRw/K4FZyI/yGATfsACcCWm4 Ld71XhQiljmHv++Nwzn/MPI= =YP6z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --o7OlDVNVrpEggBeY--