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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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