From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 6 2: 5:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A52037B422 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22787; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:34:54 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010406100237.A47057@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 18:36:27 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Rasputin Subject: Re: your mail Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Joseph Mallett Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Apr-2001 Rasputin wrote: > > 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... The loader can read quite a number of file systems, and since it only needs read-only support adding others is trivial (so I am told :) The loader can load the kernel and modules off any filesystem it understands. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message