Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[Nicolas Rachinsky]

* Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> [2004-01-09 00:02 -0700]:
> Well, except when mfsroot.gz becomes too large to fit on a single
> floppy.  Right now it is about 90k away from that.  What happens when
> mount_nfsv4 gets put on there?  John Baldwin and I already spent a
> day over the holiday break making the mfsroot.gz image fit given the
> new requirements created by having a dynamic root.  What happens the
> next time that it overflows?  It's not like the driver floppies where
> you can dike more stuff to another disk; this is a single image.  Do
> we come up with a method for having multiple, segmented images?  Who
> writes the code to do that?

Shouldn't lib/libstand/splitfs.c do this?

Nicolas