From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdevt-diff
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:28:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030414222847.GN4917@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304142218.h3EMIKIO017775@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:18:20PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:11:10 PDT, Joel Becker said:
> > I guess I'm wondering what made you choose "consistency across
> > legacy filesystems" over "consistency across our expanded device space".
>
> I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that being able to
> boot using the /dev on an iso9660 CD is a requirement for most distros?
Um, most distros mount a ramdisk. Also, the number of devices
needed for a boot surely fit in the 8:8 legacy space? I'm willing to
hear dissent, I just wanted to know the rationale.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-14 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 22:01 [PATCH] kdevt-diff Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-14 22:11 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-14 22:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-14 22:28 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-04-16 16:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-16 20:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-04-16 20:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-15 14:04 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-15 14:53 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-13 22:45 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-14 17:51 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-14 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 19:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-14 19:34 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-16 16:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-14 18:12 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-14 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 18:31 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-14 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 19:28 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-14 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 20:02 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-15 13:37 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-23 15:19 ` Pavel Machek
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