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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:06:45 -0400
From:      cmascott@world.std.com (Carl Mascott)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Does 3.0 mount(2) autoload filesystem KLDs?
Message-ID:  <199810171906.AA28666@world.std.com>

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With the new KLD system in 3.0, does mount(2) still fail if
the required filesystem module is not already loaded?  I
always thought that this was a design flaw in 2.x: programs
should not need to know or care whether filesystem code is
statically or dynamically loaded.  If a program asks to
mount a filesystem, mount(2) should just do whatever is
necessary to mount it.

As an example of how this causes problems in 2.x, consider
the case where cd9660 is an LKM that is not loaded and one
runs sysinstall from hard disk.  Sysinstall fails if it
tries to access the CD-ROM (see PR misc/6752).

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Carl Mascott
cmascott@world.std.com
uunet!world!cmascott

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