From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 6 1:43: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aphex.newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3BC37B43E for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@aphex.newgold.net) Received: from localhost (jmallett@localhost) by aphex.newgold.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f368glC08830; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 04:42:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 04:42:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Rasputin Cc: Aman Sharma , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20010406094038.A46869@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [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