Re: [tlug] how filesystem works?

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Michal Hajek wrote:
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>> Another way of doing it is getting the new kernel moved to a location 
>> earlier on the disk, but that is probably not a trivial operation..
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> Why is that?

Because in general the operating system doesn't give you any control of
where a file, in a file system, is physically placed on the hardware.

>  Why simply
> 1. find files at the beginning of disk
>   

How were you going to do this?

> 2. move these files to the end of disk
>   

How were you planning on doing this?

> 3. move kernel image to the beginning of disk
>   

How were you planning on doing this?

Edward