On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:17:27AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:

 > Surely the cleaner could just be fixed to look see if there's a boot block
 > that refers to blocks in the filesystem it is cleaning, and if so, update
 > the boot block whenever it moves the blocks it refers to (ie: /boot, though
 > the cleaner doesn't need to know that).
 > 
 > The other option (of somehow marking the /boot blocks as not being moveable)
 > seems sub-optimal to me.
 > 
 > Keeping on requiring boot out of an ffs is permanently relegating lfs to
 > 2nd class status.

If you can fit pathname resolution into the i386 primary boot, then you
can just look up /boot.  This is what the Alpha and pmax boot programs
do.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>