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 -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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