From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 07:35:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA11082 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 07:35:09 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA11063 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 07:34:57 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA18737; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 10:34:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 10:34:28 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9508021434.AA18737@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loadable kernel modules/filesystems In-Reply-To: <9508012336.AA05600@cs.weber.edu> References: <199508011308.NAA01479@elbereth.blueberry.co.uk> <9508012336.AA05600@cs.weber.edu> Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < There's already an interface to lookup by name; the missing piece is > is passing a name instead of a constant over the mount layer and some > changes to table lookup, organization, and dead entry identification. I do not believe that there is any valid reason to do this, which is why I didn't implement it that way. > Really, it wants file systems to be described with a flags descriptor > so that you can know whether a file system is local or remote Which we have and do set as appropriate. -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