From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 7:54:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75CC237B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE28843E65 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D5392B6001EFC29 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:54:15 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (80.14.10.77) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D49FF790047BDE2 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:54:15 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7EEtjPS050862 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:55:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: (from michael@localhost) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7EEti3L050859; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:55:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) X-Authentication-Warning: ketanu.dyndns.org: michael set sender to ketanu@wanadoo.fr using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about freebsd filesystems References: <20020814134825.4904.qmail@web12804.mail.yahoo.com> From: Ketanu Organization: (none) Date: 14 Aug 2002 16:55:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020814134825.4904.qmail@web12804.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <87eld1pk0f.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rohit Panda writes: > hi, > > does FreeBSD support Virtual File Systems like in linux.A file system > layer which gives a generic interface to different filesystems. (it would be nice from you to post messages with fewer than 78 characters per line) I do not kno much on this subject, but i am afraid the answer to this question is NO, and that this `NO' is the reason why there is no total support for ext2fs (there is no RELIABLE write support) in FreeBSD kernel. > and i would really appreciate if somebody can give anyhelp of whether > thers is any kind of support for cramfs or compressed filesystem(linux > does have support for this).if its not there, what should be done to have > the cramfs support in the freebsd kernel(looks like a lot of kernel code > :( ).does freebsd also support writing modules like in linux and using it > dynamically(although not all modules can be loaded dynamically). > > any help will be highly appreciated. > > thanks > > rohit -- Ketanu - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x20D90C12 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message