Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 18:36:27 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Joseph Mallett <jmallett@aphex.newgold.net> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <XFMail.20010406183627.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010406100237.A47057@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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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
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