Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-24 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:09:12PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FreeBSD support for ext2fs is a specific instance of the more general problem that features that very few people care about tend not

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:56AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:12:12PM -0500, Chris Pepper wrote: At 7:50 PM -0800 2002/11/20, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip LINT says: # # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-20 19:50, David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know they're distinct, but it's silly for a discussion of Linux applications to ignore the possibility of those apps residing on a Linux filesystem. I couldn't find ext2fs documented

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: even into GENERIC. To do the latter, the module must exist; it will be created if you make the kernel with -DWANT_EXT2FS_MODULE. It is also installed by sysinstall, IIRC. [...] Hmm...I think you're right. I don't see any documentation for the

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LINT says: # # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind # changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could # be dangerous (and

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-20 Thread Chris Pepper
At 2:06 AM -0800 2002/11/19, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to get at a file on an ext2fs slice. I'm a bit confused about kernel recompiles vs. KLDs for Linux compatibility, though. Am I reading correctly at

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-20 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To use ext2fs, you can either add the option EXT2FS to your kernel config to compile it statically into your kernel, or you can load the ext2fs module dynamically, even into GENERIC. To do the latter, the module must exist; it will be created if you

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-20 Thread Chris Pepper
At 7:50 PM -0800 2002/11/20, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To use ext2fs, you can either add the option EXT2FS to your kernel config to compile it statically into your kernel, or you can load the ext2fs module dynamically, even into GENERIC. To do the

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:12:12PM -0500, Chris Pepper wrote: At 7:50 PM -0800 2002/11/20, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip LINT says: # # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-19 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to get at a file on an ext2fs slice. I'm a bit confused about kernel recompiles vs. KLDs for Linux compatibility, though. Am I reading correctly at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:47:21PM -0500, Chris Pepper wrote: This seems a bit backwards -- is anyone aware of work to make ext2fs a standard module, so it can be loaded under GENERIC? xor# uname -a FreeBSD xor.obsecurity.org 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #7: Sun Nov 3 17:11:34 PST