From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 6 2: 6:11 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 AF41337B43E for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:06:08 -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 f3695t308172; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:05:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:05:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Rasputin Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20010406100237.A47057@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 Don't worry, Rasputin, we're not all really out to get you. (Reminder to the Get Rasputin! club, we'll be meeting at 7AM on irc.newgold.net in #Tech to discuss more ideas to confuse him). Actually, I'd point you to some good papers, but I don't know any. In fact, I'm not even sure how I learned... Read some papers on HURS, and Johannes Helander's Lites Thesis (www.cs.hut.fi/~jvh/)... Aside that, I dunno how to help... In fact, Johannes might not have even really mentioned it specifically,... Damn... I'm sure someone else knows a boot/doco /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: > * 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