Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 13:02:55 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loadable kernel modules/filesystems Message-ID: <9508021902.AA08806@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9508021434.AA18737@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Aug 2, 95 10:34:28 am
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> > 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. So i can add frogfs to the kernel and mount a frogfs file system without having to recompile my kernel or modify system header files. I thought this was obvious. If nothing else, it is a necessary step towards support of user space file system development, unless you have a kernel source level debugger and have been holding out on us. > > 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. Prior to root mount, and in all cases? I was looking for this for a kernel SAMBA FS and didn't see it. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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