Subject: Re: plugging in a filesystem
To: Valentin Pepelea <valentin@netcom.com>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/25/1998 10:20:43
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Valentin Pepelea wrote:

> Well, I've created a new filesystem, essentially a derivative of the ufs/ffs
> layers. I'm better off putting in my chancements separately, as additional filesystem to be applied only to a test partition, in case my features turn out
> like Microsoft bugs^Wfeatures. Now how exactly do I convince the kernel build
> to include it? All the necessary code is in there, as far as I can tell, but
> in the config file, I see these file-system entries. If I try adding my own
> with the file-system statement, it vigorously complains that there is no such
> filesystem.
> 
> I can't figure out what else I need to do. Pointers?

Did you add an entry to src/sys/conf/files indicating that you have a new
filesystem? I think a deffs is what you want (that's what all the other
filesystems have :-)

Take care,

Bill