Re: Merging EXT2 and El Torito

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:35:23 +0100


Hi!

> Now my question: Is here anybody who is able and interested in extending
> the EXT2 filesystem to be able to create bootable EXT2 CDs?

I think that it is _bad_ idea to put ext2 on cd. iso9660 fs will have
better performance, because ext2 was designed to be read-write, and
seek time on CD's really suck.

> Please tell me, when you think, that I am totally wrong and that the
> idea of a bootable EXT2 CD is complete nonsens. I don't know much
> about

I think it is. Or - it is not nonsense, but what you gain against
iso9660 with rockridge extensions? Not speed.

Pavel

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