Actually, it's possibly to do what he's talking about... RE: Using
ReiserFS as a root filesystem, XFS, etc. As well as HURD which uses a
seperate fs server, and Johannes Helander's Lites thesis talks about doing
the same.
It is not at all like doing FS support as a module.
/joseph
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote:
> * Aman Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010405 19:37]:
>
> > i aim to make ufs run as a module on FreeBSD, which
> > surely would require a lot of serious kernel
> > code<-entry points.
> > -------------- pitfall --------------------
> > 1. the system after boot will load the kernel image
> > into core from disc.
> > 2. kernel runs init.
> > 3. if init fails, then access to disk is'nt possible
> > as the filesystem module is not running.
>
> And if init *works*, how are you supposed to load your ufs module from disk?
>
> Speaking as someone who compiled IDE support as a module in a Linux
> kernel once, I don't recommend it.
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