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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 1995 10:34:28 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton), questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loadable kernel modules/filesystems
Message-ID:  <9508021434.AA18737@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9508012336.AA05600@cs.weber.edu>
References:  <199508011308.NAA01479@elbereth.blueberry.co.uk> <9508012336.AA05600@cs.weber.edu>

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<<On Tue, 1 Aug 95 17:36:00 MDT, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said:

> There's already an interface to lookup by name; the missing piece is
> is passing a name instead of a constant over the mount layer and some
> changes to table lookup, organization, and dead entry identification.

I do not believe that there is any valid reason to do this, which is
why I didn't implement it that way.

> Really, it wants file systems to be described with a flags descriptor
> so that you can know whether a file system is local or remote

Which we have and do set as appropriate.

-GAWollman

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