From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 27 1:46:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6302437B718; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14Xghr-000FD4-0A; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:46:07 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1R9k7129912; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:46:07 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:46:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Rusher , Sam Leffler , Zhiui Zhang , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system In-Reply-To: <200102270342.UAA10733@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I'm not sure that is true. You can always load a kld from loader(8). > > > > > > Not from an XFS root filesystem, you can't. > > > > It is so very fortunate, then, that neither loader nor the kld need be > > in the root filesystem, eh? :-) > > Great, the most important part of my system has to be on some > other FS type because otherwise I can't boot. > > I would prefer to have my boot loader, kernel, and modules live > on the safest FS available to me. If that's not XFS, why use > it? If it is XFS, then why use something else, except for the > license making me? Terry, if it really matters that XFS root filesystems are bootable, then someone will write an XFS reader module for libstand. Personally, I don't think it will ever matter that much. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message