Re: VFS Module Autoloading

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Stephen M. Rumble wrote:

> The new-style modload, modunload and modstat tools all work. They're just not 
> built by default - you need to set MKMODULAR, in which case they mostly 
> replace the LKM versions. However, the modules themselves are built and 
> installed and the kernel contains support for them. Consequently, -current 
> (and what's to be 5.0) there's no way to load, unload or query these modules 
> by default as you'll be invoking the LKM tools. Yet at the same time, the 
> kernel will suck them in automatically for file systems.

        It may be a dumb question, but what is the downside of
        setting MKMODULAR by default?

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