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From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	Hiroyuki Machida <machida@sm.sony.co.jp>
Subject: Re: does the linux support rootfs on vfat?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:41:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <440C6638.7000909@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50c9a2250603042217l475e84pc9ab7ce87c40eb76@mail.gmail.com>

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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-05  6:17 does the linux support rootfs on vfat? zhuzhenhua
2006-03-05  8:09 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-03-05 11:22   ` Ralf Baechle
2006-03-06 16:49     ` Geoff Levand
2006-03-06 17:08       ` P. Christeas
2006-03-06 12:36 ` Stuart Longland
2006-03-06 16:41 ` Geoff Levand [this message]

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