On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:58:53PM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > 2. Use a subdirectory of the foreign filesystem and put all Hurd files > there. One problem here is that most likely, that foreign filesystem > won't have the extra space for metadata like translator bits etc... > A workaround would be to add a file (either per directory or for all > files) that would contain such metadata (somehow like Linux' umsdosfs).
IIRC, the use of translators etc. is quite within the specs of EXT2. With the owner set to 'hurd' a conforming implementation should not gratuitously clobber the information. I think some people reported success a couple of years ago running hurd and linux in one filesystem. The big problem instead is separating the /lib's etc from the foreign OS. The ext2 server does support your first option, however, of mounting a file as a FS. If you could work the necessary cleverness into the init you ought to be able to ask ext2fs.static to load twice: Once for the foriegn OS, and once for the embedded filesystem. Server loading could continue to take place. Of course, I'd hate to try and report bugs on such a system. =) -- "It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all." - Douglas Adams
