From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 30 13:31:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BCE37B6E8; Tue, 30 May 2000 13:31:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA30098; Tue, 30 May 2000 16:31:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:31:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200005302031.QAA30098@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" Cc: "'Zhihui Zhang'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: stupid FS questions In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > i know that :) i guess my questions were > 1) why the same piece of code duplicated in all ``mount_xxx'' utilities? Because the original loadable module system held strongly to the religion that the kernel should never load anything of its own accord. The designers of the current loadable module system made different design choices, but the some traces of its predecessor still remain. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message