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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: BFFS?
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:25:41 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960124.7495DE0.A89D@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <4e5h6n$5bc@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
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- In <4e5h6n$5bc@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>, thomas@ORNL.GOV (charles thomas) wrote:
- > With all this talk about BFFS I'm wondering why
- > it's used. I installed NetBSD-1.1 from scratch
- > and it came with an ADOS file system driver. It
- > appears that I can mount and copy from ADOS
- > file systems without any problem. What exactly
- > does BFFS do for me?
-
- Go the other way. Save a little disk space.
-
- Until I upgraded to NetBSD 1.1 (and disks, which appears to be the
- problem) the ADOS side mounted my root partition as netbsd:, and
- user-startup did:
-
- if exists netbsd:bootcommand
- execute netbsd:bootcommand
- endif
-
- On the netbsd side, /bootcommand contained one line:
- netbsd:loadbsd -a netbsd:netbsd
-
- This meant I could control the boot behavior of netbsd without ever
- having to drop back out to AmigaDOS. I don't think the ados driver
- will let you do this - especially if you aren't willing to write to
- any partition from a foriegn OS.
-
- <mike
-