>> I don't like umsdos personally. Have you considered using a file
>> on the msdos filesystem with an ext2 filesystem on it instead? I
>> have a machine with its root filesystem mounted on /dev/loop0. A
>> little playing with initrd makes this quite easy. This means you
>> have no need for a untfs (and in my case, no need for a uadfs).
> Five reasons to not to use this:
> - You can not resize an ext2fs image - repartitioning is better,
> because FIPS, presizer or Partition Magic can resize msdos
> partitions
Do you need to?
> - You can not read an ext2fs image from dos
Eh?
> - It will be slow (ok, umsdos is slow too)
8-)
> - A newbie will never be able to set up a looproot distribution
Don't be so sure...
> - Looproot is problematic and untested (for example it does not
> work in vfat but works on an msdos partition)
I don't know about looproot, but I have one system set up where the
/usr partition is loop mounted from a VFAT partition, and that works
fine...
> I think, a general ums-like pseudo-ext2-fs over not only umsdos,
> but all non unix-compatible fs were very good and useful for the
> linux community.
I'd certainly like to see a variant of UMSDOS that assumes the
underlying file system is VFAT rather than MSDOS - in fact, I'm
tempted to have a go at the UVFAT file system myself...
Best wishes from Riley.
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