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Re: JFS support (PATCH) and filesystem improvements
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: JFS support (PATCH) and filesystem improvements |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:49:58 +0000 |
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"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:
>> To avoid code duplication I wrote kern/fshelp.c, which has the
>> following two functions:
>
> That is a good idea, but why are the functions in the kernel? Imagine
> that GRUB 2 supports TFTP and the user uses GRUB as a network-based
> loader. Probably the user does not have to compile the helper
> functions, because network-based filesystems are very different at the
> implementation level.
True.
> So I think they should be in a module rather than the kernel. fshelp.mod
> sounds good for me.
This is a good idea. Is it possible to do this already? How do I
make a filesystem depend on fshelp.mod? I assume by using one of its
symbols. Is the dependancy code in CVS already?
I will change this and make the changes suggested by Thomas before
committing this. I have some ideas to make things more efficient for
some kinds of filesystems, I will implemented this as well.
Thanks,
Marco