Subject: Re: Now I've done it. I boughtta iMac.
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/18/1999 12:10:26
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> There's another way to go about this:
> 
> 1. get/write HFS/HFS+ support.

Unfortunatly I believe that's farther off. :-(

> 2. run NetBSD mounted on a vnd/ffs root inside a single HFS/HFS+ file.
> 
> That way, in theory, you shouldn't need to do anything funky to MacOS or
> its partitioning system.

But we're not doing anything funky to MacOS's partitioning system. :-)
We're actually just using it. :-)

The problem with vnd right now is that it can wedge when you're using it
for the whole system. We run into buffer cache problems.

Take care,

Bill