| To: | zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: does the linux support rootfs on vfat? |
| From: | Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> |
| Date: | Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:09:58 +0100 |
| Cc: | linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> |
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On Sun, 2006-03-05 14:17:56 +0800, zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com> wrote: > if in my product based ide disk, i want to it to support the > u-disk(with vfat fs), and can i set the root fs as vfat too? > if use vfat as rootfs, what's disadvantage of the selection? Well, most notably you won't have device nodes. Maybe a ram-backed filesystem mounted to /dev/ could solve that, but you'd probably need an initrd for that to do. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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