Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> To quote simonb:
> 
> >Currently the alpha bootblocks are compiled such that the libsa ufs.c
> >doesn't descend into directories.  Adding the directory descent stuff to
> >my test pmax code (based on the current alpha bootblocks) added another
> >176 bytes to the total size of the first stage bootblocks.  Adding the
> >check for "boot/pmax" then "boot" chewed another 64 bytes.  There's
> >still another 304 bytes left over.  Heaps :-)
> 
> The alpha isn't quite so lucky:
> 
> with -DLIBSA_FS_SINGLECOMPONENT (i.e. only files in / supported):
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  6888 Sep 28 20:55 bootxx_ffs
> 
> without:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7496 Sep 28 20:57 bootxx_ffs

It looks like you're including symlink support in here.  I just tried
with -DLIBSA_FS_SINGLECOMPONENT (.old) and -DLIBSA_NO_FS_SYMLINK (.new)
and the results are little more encouraging.

-rw-r--r--  1 simonb  staff  6744 Sep 29 14:50 bootxx_ffs.old
-rw-r--r--  1 simonb  staff  6872 Sep 29 14:52 bootxx_ffs.new


Ok, it seems a few people are against a boot/ directory.  Has anyone got
any suggestions on how to handle the ISO9660 8+3 filename limit?  At
lunch, Luke suggested <arch>.bt - I'm not sure if it was tongue-in-cheek
:-)

Simon.