From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 6 2: 2:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3DCC37B505 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14lS8c-000KhY-00; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:02:38 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3692bR47086; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:02:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:02:37 +0100 From: Rasputin To: Joseph Mallett Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010406100237.A47057@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20010406094038.A46869@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jmallett@aphex.newgold.net on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:42:46AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Joseph Mallett [010406 09:46]: > 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. Is that because of the loader? I still don't understand how a kernel can load a module from a disk it doesn't know how to read yet? Although I have a horrible feeling everyone else does... -- 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