FAT32 filesystems to be mounted, subject to some fairly serious limitations.
This works by extending the internal pseudo-inode-numbers generated from
the file's starting cluster number to 64-bits, then creating a table
mapping these into arbitrary 32-bit inode numbers, which can fit in
struct dirent's d_fileno and struct vattr's va_fileid fields. The mappings
do not persist across unmounts or reboots, so it's not possible to export
these filesystems through NFS. The mapping table may grow to be rather
large, and may grow large enough to exhaust kernel memory on filesystems
with millions of files.
Don't enable this option unless you understand the consequences.
it with vfsload("msdos").
(The proper fix would be to rename the `msdos' file system to
`msdosfs' in VFS_SET(), and mount_msdos(8) to mount_msdosfs(8).
But that would break too many existing fstab(5) setups, and
would require a lot of unnecessary documentation and code
msdos -> msdosfs changes.)
Noticed by: markm
This means that the kernel can be totally self contained now and is not
dependent on the last buildworld to update /usr/share/mk. This might
also make it easier to build 5.x kernels on 4.0 boxes etc, assuming
gensetdefs and config(8) are updated.
needed for ages, but keeps getting cut/pasted into new Makefiles.
(Once apon a time it was used to activate mount arguments in
<sys/mount.h>, but that was killed with extreme prejudice long ago)
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.