[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 17:26 -0700 >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: > > That doesn't sound good, but how is it different from the backup > > scripts we use now? > >The disk need not be accessed for months at a time in an LRP box. Jeff, Understood. Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me. > > I thought this might be a good way to write protect hard drives > > and flash disks. > >Perhaps... or it may actually be _too_ restrictive, since you simply >don't have the option to write anything to it... almost like a cd, >without the media portability. Ok. I must be getting confused. I thought packramfs would write temporary data to a cramfs partition. >This seems appropriate for a truly single-purpose hardware device, since >you don't need such a big ramdisk, and you don't want to customize >it. When dealing with the variety of hardware that LRP can handle, >though, it seems like too much work. That would explain the strange look I got from the MontaVista rep. when I suggested cramfs on a floppy. This still doesn't explain why Debian is trying to do the following for their boot floppies. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0102/msg00435.html ~ Build in crams and ramfs. We're going to boot off of a cramfs initrd ~ and then set up and pivot_root into a ramfs filesystem. -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
