Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/conf

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 11.02.2011 07:30, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 05:06:43AM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
>> Indeed, it would be good to have at least some exec formats and
>> file-systems builtin by default in GENERIC:
>>
>> EXEC_ELF32, _SCRIPT  # obvious
>> FFS, CD9660, MFS, TMPFS, NFS, EXT2FS
> 
> FFS should be compiled into the kernel. But I doubt that somebody uses
> both MFS and TMPFS. I hardly ever use CD9660 or EXT2FS while I use
> NFS a lot. There will however be people with is opposite requirements
> which is why those should really be modules.
> 
>> e.g. the typical file-systems we may have to use, without having to rely
>> on modules that could be absent or non accessible at boot time.
> 
> I don't think it needs typical file-systems. IMHO the kernel should
> contain the file-systems required for booting. This will solve most
> of the update issues.

This will allow booting, but not necessarily in a sufficient environment
to fix update issues: if someone needs to mount an ISO or NFS share to
get updated modules, he will need these.

Besides, it's more or less the list of file-systems that have associated
mount_* in the INSTALL ramdisk; I removed some though: ntfs, kernfs, lfs
and msdos.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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