Subject: Re: LKM support
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/09/1996 10:32:53
Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> writes:
>
> And just how would you suggest this be done?
>
> If I link in the ffs system automatically, that's ok. If the mfs
> LKM contains the ffs code internally, then you're screwed when you try
> to load both mfs and ffs due to duplicate symbols.
It seems to me that the real answer here is to make MFS go away, and
change mount_mfs to create a rd device and mount it. (We'd also need
a umount_mfs to garbage collect the rd device.)