Re: romfs
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
15 Feb 1997 22:51:24 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970214230718.6791A-100000@fan1.fan.nb.ca>
By author: William Burrow <aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hmm, how is the development of romfs? Is this a good fs to use as a live
> filesystem on a CDROM? Can file compression be built into romfs, such
> that files under a certain size can be optionally compressed to save
> space? Are all the Unixy attributes useful for such a filesystem present
> (eg device bits (block, character, pipe), sticky bits, read, write,
> ownership, etc?). Just looking for a bit of clarification.
>
What's wrong with ISO 9660, which is already optimized for CD-ROMs,
and with Rock Ridge extensions have all the necessary stuff for Unix
built right in?
-hpa
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