From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Oct 28 21: 6:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9320151F1 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA34300; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:06:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:06:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Erez Zadok Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupidfs - easily extensible test file systems? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In answer to my own email--I loaded the lkm.ko kld to provide lkm support, but that didn't seem to work either: # kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 3 0xc0100000 2e73a4 kernel 2 1 0xc09cf000 e000 linux.ko 3 1 0xc0b98000 3000 lkm.ko # modstat Type Id Off Loadaddr Size Info Rev Module Name # modload nullfs_mod.o ld: /kernel: malformed input file (not rel or archive) modload: /usr/bin/ld: return code 1 I suppose this means it's running the ELF version of ld, not the a.out version, but I really don't know enough about how it works to comment much more on the matter. :-) Thanks, Robert On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Erez Zadok wrote: > > > Robert, it's been done. To some degree that's nullfs (if nullfs had been > > working; the VFS is broken). I've written stackable f/s templates exactly > > for the purpose of developers using them to build other f/s w/o having the > > many hassles of writing a full f/s. My wrapper templates, called wrapfs, > > work on freebsd, linux, and solaris. You can build all kinds of f/s using > > them, including f/s that do not require persistent storage. > > > > See > > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research > > for papers, and > > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/software > > for tarballs. > > > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Any chance you have a version that does klds on 3.3? :-) I'm rebuilding > my kernel to include klds, but would prefer to use klds since they're the > current thing :-). > > Robert N M Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services > > Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message