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Am Sun, 4. June 2006 19:24 schrieb Thilo Six:
> email.listen at googlemail.com wrote the following on 04.06.2006 17:23:
>
> <snip>
>
> First of all thanks for the informative post. ;)
>
> > Not all supported filesystems show up here. I don't exactly now why but I
> > would think this is because of dynamic kernel filesystem modules which
> > will be loaded only if needed.
>
> I have palyed with that und if a module gets loaded /proc/filesystems
> gets updated, too.

Hhhm could be done a bit more elegant (imho)?
Preloading kernel modules is a waste of recources, so unused kernel modules 
use memory. 
Ok, it's not much memory they use but may be it's a more elegant way to have 
an /etc/filesystems file 
I would prefer an /etc/filesystems file 

Not to forget it's easier to copy /etc/filesystems to other machines than to 
adapt each /etc/modules file. This because /etc/modules differ from machine 
to machine due to different hardware but /etc/filesystems doesn't.

>
> e.g. after:
> $ sudo modprobe vfat
> $ sudo modprobe isofs
>
> cat /proc/filesystems
> .
> .
> .
>         udf
>         iso9660
>         vfat
>
> Now i have added vfat and isofs to /etc/modules. Thanks for this tip. ;)

regards,
thomas