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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 1995 12:43:31 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Loadable kernel modules/filesystems
Message-ID:  <9508011643.AA17312@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199508011308.NAA01479@elbereth.blueberry.co.uk>
References:  <199508011308.NAA01479@elbereth.blueberry.co.uk>

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<<On Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:08:52 +0000 (), Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> said:

> and then simply load the FDESC, CD9660, KERNFS, MSDOSFS, NULLFS, 
> UMAPFS and PROCFS filesystems at run time, rather than including them as 
> options in the kernel configuration file. 

> However, lkm(4) says

>     Virtual File System modules
>             Virtual file systems may be added via the LKM interface.  At this
>             time, only file systems which are already known to the system can
>             be added, because of the way the mount(2) system call is imple-
>             mented.

lkm.4 is wrong, although even if it were correct it still wouldn't
matter for what you wish to do, since all the filesystems shipped with
the system are ``already known to the system''.

-GAWollman

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