On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

> You should note that neither QNX nor FreeBSD exhibit the above 
> behaviour.  KLD is a linker; it allows you to link more stuff into the 
> kernel after it's been started.  It doesn't implement a coprocess model 
> of any sort.

Yes, I knew this for FreeBSD, and for QNX, well, Slashdot again proves to
be totally unreliable.  :)
 
> Indeed it would.  There's some fairly strong resistance to this being 
> the _only_ way that FreeBSD works, but the level of modularity you 

I don't think this is a good idea but it would certainly be a swank thing
to see.

Is it possible to compile a kernel with no filesystems supported and have
the boot loader load FFS?  I have built an FFS module but I have not yet
had time to test it.  Frankly, I am kind of afraid to for fear of trashing
my system.

> > Has anyone else thought about this?  Is this a good idea?  Is this a
> > bad idea?
> 
> Yes, Yes, Yes.

Could you claify this?  :)

Jamie



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