On Feb 11, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> Of course, the ramdisk makes like difficult for small-memory  
>> systems.  A real file system is always better.
>
> I agree that the 'cd filesystem' (non-ramdisk) is good for small  
> memory
> systems. Do they usually have cdroms at all?

My Sun3 had a CD-ROM...  16MB HP300s can have CD-ROMs...

> As for "is always better" -> see my previous posts.

One way its better... allows you to put a richer installer on the  
media.  Even on large memory machines, you're limited by the amount  
of available KVA for the ramdisk.  (On large memory machines, KVA is  
actually tighter, because more KVA is used for the data structure  
that manage the memory...)

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>  - Hubert

-- thorpej