Re: BeastieBox, a (Net)BSD BusyBox-like

["Arnaud Lacombe" <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
>>>        - My 4.4MB /rescue gzips down to 2.2MB, which means vndcompress(1)
>>>          could be a real win
>>>
>> This is a bogus reasoning. Architecture we are speaking about also
>> have RAM constraint and you can hardly vndcompress(1) md image
>> embedded in the kernel.
>
> I don't think so.  Usually those devices have bigger RAM than ROM.
>
System RAM has *no point* to be wasted by a by-definition static file
system. Even if the board has 16MB of RAM, the kernel will already
take 4MB leaving just 12MB for the real purpose of device.

 - Arnaud