Subject: Re: What happens when the floppy's too big?
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/10/2001 16:47:43
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:05:29AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	I believe ustarfs should also allow you to fit slightly more on a
> > 	single floppy - less overhead than ffs.
>
> I'm not sure that's enough, but if someone wants to tell me how, I'm
> willing to try.
>
> 3632    netbsd-INSTALL-NO_USB
> 3688    netbsd-INSTALL-WITH_USB
>
> Will ustarfs buy us 50 (uncompressed) bytes just with less complex
> metadata?

	I'd be surprised at that much (50k), but given the kernel is just
	going to keep growing for other reasons, its probably still worth
	doing...

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