Kernel configuration

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:20:42PM +0200, Toni Heinonen wrote:
> % grep NFS /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MEITSIN
> #options        NFSCLIENT               # Network Filesystem Client
> #options        NFSSERVER               # Network Filesystem Server
> #options        NFS_ROOT                # NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT
> % ls /boot/kernel/nfs*
> /boot/kernel/nfsclient.ko       /boot/kernel/nfsserver.ko
> % grep MEITSIN /boot/kernel/kernel 
> Binary file /boot/kernel/kernel matches
> 
> I didn't give options NFSCLIENT or NFSSERVER yet it seems to have compiled support. What gives?

What you don't compile into your kernel (by eg. 'options NFSCLIENT')
will generally be compiled as a loadable module instead -- here
nfsclient.ko

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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