Re: Autoloading of vfs modules (was: CVS commit: src/sys/kern)

[Andrew Doran <ad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:01:24PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:25:49PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > 
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       ad
> > Date:               Tue May 20 17:25:49 UTC 2008
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/sys/kern: vfs_syscalls.c
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > If mount fails because the needed file system code isn't in kernel, try
> > to autoload with the needed vfsops.
> 
> Can this please be made optional so it will NOT try to load a vfs module?
> 
> There are reasons why some file systems are not enabled in the kernel
> and having some magic which still does it is very surprisingly and not
> intentional.
> I'm more inclined to make the default the other way around, disable it
> and only enable it by a compile option or sysctl.

You can build a custom kernel without the MODULAR option.

Andrew