From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264261AbUEXOvy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 10:51:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264274AbUEXOvy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 10:51:54 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:39102 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264261AbUEXOvw (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 10:51:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:51:50 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS? Message-ID: <20040524145150.GQ1912@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="j6NQunVinLIRleuJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --j6NQunVinLIRleuJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de>: > Looking at the state of the UMSDOS code in 2.6 I'm currently wondering=20 > about it's future. >=20 > 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 --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --j6NQunVinLIRleuJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAsgwGHb1edYOZ4bsRAozBAJ4/lm54pn4a1/CzzMNFBJrnqiHFyQCfTlTU M9a9+O3PiTwl/V9VkaGv+e0= =Kt/2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --j6NQunVinLIRleuJ--