On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:38 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> > It has not been a problem for anyone I know. It might not be perfect >> > or beautiful, but I have yet to hear any suggestion for a replacement >> > that has all the advantages of 9fat (simple, reliable, easily >> > accessible from other systems, etc.) >> >> I think "easily accessible from other systems" should be removed >> from the list. There are alternatives, such as booting a live cd. >> Many other operating systems also keep their kernels on native >> filesystems and do not suffer because of it. > > i have found it convienent to be able to update a kernel > from linux, osx, windows. i would imagine this is important > for vm solutions, too. do you think it's preferable to build > a live cd for this including the little bit prepared in another > os? i've found live cds to be pretty annoying to maintain. >
as i said early in this thread, with 9null you kernel may live in any fs you like as long as Plan 9 has can read it.
