Subject: Re: LKM's for some file systems
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/29/1995 16:31:52
> On Wed, 27 Dec 1995 18:27:05 -0600 
>  "Michael Graff" <explorer@flame.org> wrote:
> 
>  > 1)  One file to load the lkm and configure it, such as procfs followed
>  >     by a mount, all in the same file
>  > 
>  > I would think #1 is *much* simplier.
> 
> I agree, but then we've stepped into the BSD vs. SysV war again :-)

there's a big difference between a script that:
	(1) loads procfs, and
	(2) mounts an instance of procfs using a mount_procfs-type
	    program,

and a program that loads procfs and mounts it, and you can only mount
it with the program that loaded it.


In the former case, you need a "mount_procfs" command, but in the
latter you don't.  I don't see how you can get away without one -- and
that's what it seems that the first proposal was trying to do.


chris