From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 5 11:36:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from web13201.mail.yahoo.com (web13201.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F6D837B443 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from satanmode@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010405183623.84853.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.54.96.250] by web13201.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:36:23 PDT Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:36:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Aman Sharma To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ************ project ************* ********** kldload ufs *********** i feel that a real microkernel OS should'nt have a bloated kernel in the sense, that heavy OS equipment like a FileSystem should run as a module on top of the kernel. i aim to make ufs run as a module on FreeBSD, which surely would require a lot of serious kernel code<-entry points. -------------- pitfall -------------------- 1. the system after boot will load the kernel image into core from disc. 2. kernel runs init. 3. if init fails, then access to disk is'nt possible as the filesystem module is not running. ** i do not know how HURD does it ** -------------------------------------------- i have'nt done a lot of kernel hacking so if anyone can shed some light on this subject, i'd be really grateful FreeBSDRules __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message