Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS?
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 09:53:15 EST
On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Looking at the state of the UMSDOS code in 2.6 I'm currently wondering
> about it's future.
>
> Are there still potential users and people willing to work on getting it
> working, or should it be removed from kernel 2.6?
In my early Linux days, UMSDOS was quite a neat thing to have for
showing Linux to friends by placing a .zip'ed Linux installation on
their MS-DOS machines.
So for historic reasons, I think it would be nice to have UMSDOS around.
However, one can achieve the same (with a lot more work) by placing a
loop-mountable ext2 FS and start it from an initrd. Much more
complicated, not that flexible (loop-mounted files don't typically
grow:)
So, it's quite nice to have it (had), but there's no strong need to keep
it IMO.
MfG, JBG
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