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Date:      Fri, 6 Apr 2001 04:42:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joseph Mallett <jmallett@aphex.newgold.net>
To:        Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
Cc:        Aman Sharma <satanmode@yahoo.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104060441360.8312-100000@aphex.newgold.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010406094038.A46869@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Actually, it's possibly to do what he's talking about... RE: Using
ReiserFS as a root filesystem, XFS, etc. As well as HURD which uses a
seperate fs server, and Johannes Helander's Lites thesis talks about doing
the same.

It is not at all like doing FS support as a module.

/joseph

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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote:

> * Aman Sharma <satanmode@yahoo.com> [010405 19:37]:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> And if init *works*, how are you supposed to load your ufs module from disk?
> 
> Speaking as someone who compiled IDE support as a module in a Linux
> kernel once, I don't recommend it.
> -- 
> Rasputin
> Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns
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