> I just had the strangest thing happen, with 2.2.2-pre5; I had
> applied Makoto Kato's second BFS filesystem patch, and wanted to
> try it out. I rebooted with the new kernel and mounted my Be
> partition with 'mount -t bfs'. The partition was mounted, I could
> list directories and files, I could cat text files to the console,
> and I successfully copied a couple of files to a Linux partition.
> Then I realized that I had never insmod-ed the bfs module! How can
> this have worked? The odd thing is that I'm unable to use the bfs
> module to copy files, even with this second version. I'm just
> curious; anyone have any ideas?
the kernel went looking for a module called 'bfs' at mount time... as
it does (or can do) for other filesystems.
-cw
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