Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:30:14 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Mounting BFS partition oddness |
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On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 06:06:23PM -0600, Larry Ayers wrote:
> I just had the strangest thing happen, with 2.2.2-pre5; I had > applied Makoto Kato's second BFS filesystem patch, and wanted to > try it out. I rebooted with the new kernel and mounted my Be > partition with 'mount -t bfs'. The partition was mounted, I could > list directories and files, I could cat text files to the console, > and I successfully copied a couple of files to a Linux partition. > Then I realized that I had never insmod-ed the bfs module! How can > this have worked? The odd thing is that I'm unable to use the bfs > module to copy files, even with this second version. I'm just > curious; anyone have any ideas?
the kernel went looking for a module called 'bfs' at mount time... as it does (or can do) for other filesystems.
-cw
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