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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2017 16:14:39 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, current list <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mount -t tmpfs tmpfs fails
Message-ID:  <260d04dd-64a4-0bb3-f1a1-3cdc38f8c9c2@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170614205034.GD5608@rancor.immure.com>
References:  <20170614191445.GC5608@rancor.immure.com> <20170614205034.GD5608@rancor.immure.com>

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From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, current list <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <260d04dd-64a4-0bb3-f1a1-3cdc38f8c9c2@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: mount -t tmpfs tmpfs fails
References: <20170614191445.GC5608@rancor.immure.com>
 <20170614205034.GD5608@rancor.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170614205034.GD5608@rancor.immure.com>

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On 6/14/2017 1:50 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
>> I was attempting to run 'synth status' on my 12-current (drm-next) sys=
tem
>> and I got this error:
>>
>> root@tavion:0 /> synth status
>> Querying system about current package installations.
>> Stand by, comparing installed packages against the ports tree.
>>
>> raised REPLICANT.SCENARIO_UNEXPECTED : /sbin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr=
/obj/synth-live/SL09 =3D> failed with code 1
>>
>> So then I attempted just to do a mount of tmpfs command and got this:
>>
>> root@tavion:0 /> mount -t tmpfs x /tmp/xxx =20
>> mount: x: Operation not supported by device
>>
>> synth used to work on this system prior to my recent upgrade to the la=
test
>> drm-next branch (cloned from github and build from source).
>>
>> root@tavion:1 /> uname -a
>> FreeBSD tavion.austin.ibm.com 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #1 da5=
f90154f1(drm-next): Tue Jun 13 16:58:52 CDT 2017     bob@tavion.austin.ib=
m.com:/usr/obj/usr/freebsd-base-graphics/sys/TAVION  amd64
>>
>> Any suggestions on what I should be looking for (or fixing)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>=20
> Ok, I finally figured out that my previous kernel must have had the tmp=
fs (and
> nullfs, it was a problem also with synth) built into the kernel, probab=
ly by
> default. Further, the tmpfs.ko and nullfs.ko modules weren't built and
> installed.
>=20
> I wound up building and installing both tmpfs and nullfs manually (cdin=
g to
> their respective src direcdories and running make; make install) to get=
 synth
> to run.
>=20
> My only question remaining now is was the removal of the building and
> installing of these modules a fairly recent change in 12.0, or is somet=
hing in
> my system hosed up?

Oddly I don't see TMPFS ever being in the x86 GENERIC kernel files.
Only in some arm and mips kernel configurations.  Even if not built into
the kernel there should be a loadable module built unless you are using
MODULES_OVERRIDE.


--=20
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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