On 06-Apr-2001 Rasputin wrote:
> > It is not at all like doing FS support as a module.
> Is that because of the loader? I still don't understand how a kernel
> can load a module from a disk it doesn't know how to read yet?
> Although I have a horrible feeling everyone else does...
The loader can read quite a number of file systems, and since it only needs
read-only support adding others is trivial (so I am told :)
The loader can load the kernel and modules off any filesystem it understands.
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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