[haiku-development] Re: Are fs add-ons cached?
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:48:31 +0200
On 2008-08-22 at 13:50:07 [+0200], Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Dustin Howett wrote:
>
> >> Does listimage list images that are loaded at the moment it runs or all
> >> images that have been loaded at some point? Because besides cdda, it also
> >> shows dos, ext2 and iso9660 as being loaded. And at no point I mounted
> >> any
> >> partition other than cdda. In fact, I do not even have a dos partition on
> >> my computer.
> >>
> >> Ideas?
> >
> > Could this be from the boot process, scanning for filesystems?
> > I haven't looked too far into the boot process, mind you, but it's the
> > first thing I could think of.
> > If so, they're either not being released, or listimage shows everything
> > forever.
>
> Axel's recent patches seems to have fixed it with one caveat. Even if a
> filesystem is not mounted but was detected, the add-on seems to not be
> unloaded (for example, I still see the ext2 add-on in listimage even
> when not mounting any ext2 partitions. This is obviously because of the
> partition scan but I wonder if the add-on should not be unloaded unless
> it is actually used.
The disk device manager keeps file systems loaded that have recognized
partitions. I think that's OK. What's missing is that a file system is
actually reloaded when it has been replaced.
CU, Ingo
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