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Miro Kropacek wrote:
> mint's unix stuff can't run from hostfs
> entirely, I'm not sure whos fault it is but I tried to do exactly that
> some months ago -- i.e. bootstrapped mintara.prg + whole filesystem on
> hostfs. I came pretty far but then it failed either on some symlinks
> or unability to create stuff like /pipe/log or so.

I use a minimal setup using a boostraped MiNT on hostfs and bash-only on 
the BIOS console, it works well.

The RPM database can't live on an hostfs drive because it lacks some 
locking functions. So you can't use rpm on a fully hostfs system. I 
struggled a lot to understand that.

ARAnyM use internal hacking with the contents of the symlinks (unlike 
NFS for example), I gave up trying serious things on hostfs (such as 
compiling).

When using ls, the number of blocks used by the files is incorrect. It 
seems there is a misunderstanding between 
MiNTLib/FreeMiNT/hostfs/ARAnyM. I started investigating that one day, 
but I didn't finished, since it is a minor issue.

Some people will say things can't work correctly on Windows because of 
the case-insensitive filesystem, but since things work fine in Cygwin 
itself, I think it should work as fine in MiNT+hostfs.

And finally, MiKRO, I think this is what you tried: copying a full 
EasyMiNT setup from FAT16/ext2 partitions to hostfs should work fine, it 
is a very realistic goal and testcase.

-- 
Vincent Rivière