Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers] | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 1999 02:47:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> USER/KERNEL drivers through a general IOCTL interface. Linux doesn't > have one for FS drivers, but everyone else does. I can't use NWFS as a > boot FS if I cannot open symbolic handles to talk to the FS driver.
We mount the boot fs read only so nobody can damage it. Everything after that is user space and policy
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