On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Eric W. Biederman > <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hehe, I just checked my new kernel... that does not work (nothing in the logs). >>> But I think it's good to see if the filesystem is registered/loaded. >> >> lsmod | grep overlayfs > > How about the compiled-in case? What's wrong with just using the > obvious /proc/filesystems? > As I don't need OverlayFS in my daily life, I have it here built as a module. Nevertheless, as module or built-in /me as an end-user wants to know what's going on. So, dmesg is normally my first weapon. I grep-ed trrough a bit through all the filesystems in fs/ and it is not handled unique. "Loaded" BTW is not the right term in FS-folks-jargon: The functions are called (un)register_filesystem(). $ dmesg | grep -i loaded [ 0.241037] vgaarb: loaded [ 0.241243] libata version 3.00 loaded. [ 0.358574] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252) [ 0.368711] brd: module loaded [ 0.369832] loop: module loaded [ 0.650086] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [ 0.651150] Loaded X.509 cert 'Magrathea: Glacier signing key: e75e3a59e59cb48db975ac12e21a905289ada56f' [ 1.788947] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 8.617549] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 10.490721] wmi: Mapper loaded [ 11.994985] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 [ 73.885056] squashfs: loaded [ 81.345070] overlayfs: loaded I am not sure whether those lines "blabla: module loaded" is true for loop (block) it is a hardcoded printk-line. I doubt... CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y Last but not least, user-space apps like GRUB trigger fs loaded. For me this is helpful. You might be bored or whatever reason I can't or don't want to understand. And just to have some fun about status informations: Check your drm (kms) driver with date and version :-). Stuff that is not maintained should be thrown out (yes, I had sent patches...). - Sedat - > Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html