> > If we could just get the booter doing it, all woudl be welll since after an
> > isntall, we could boot to a miniroot and convert the file system up to 4.4 and
> > keep the miniroot around in lieu of the isntaller.
> 
> I don't think that the booter really has to understand the 4.4 fastfs, if 
> it can read the kernel, that's all it has to do.  The kernel itself 
> _does_ understand the newer filesystem, so it should be able to mount it 
> just fine.  The Mkfs utility still doesn't understand the newer 
> filesystem, though (unless someone has done something really recently and 
> not announced it).

Well, the booter does have to understand the ffs well-enough that 
it can find the kernel. My experience with the installer shows that
it doesn't know how to handle symbolic links; I doubt the booter
would either (though I might be wrong). Thus if I have /netbsd
symlinked to something (a perfectly valid thing to do in the filesystem),
the booter wouldn't be able to deal with it. :-(

Take care,

Bill