On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0100, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote: > 2005/10/30, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Because that would make it impossible to use anything but ext2 for the > > filesystem containing your kernel. > > I disagree. It's bootloader's problem how to handle the filesystem > containing the kernel.
Not to be a stickler, but it's the bootloader's problem to load the kernel into memory. It's the kernel's problem to mount all the filesystems (including the initrd). What this means is that the kernel also needs access to this filesystem code. *If* the filesystems were compiled as modules, they'd have to be properly added to the initrd or else the system wouldn't be able to mount the root filesystem (to get the filesystem modules). Jason -- If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
pgpdctNdTDGs3.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
