From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 9 13:40: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2227937B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f39Ke3337001; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104092040.f39Ke3337001@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: kern/26466: devfs panics Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/26466; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Poul-Henning Kamp To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/26466: devfs panics Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 22:34:50 +0200 > The usual /dev/ad8e and the devfs /devs/rad8e are supposed to be > the same. Major number is 116, minor -- 68. The drive is "dangerously > allocated". > > > The /dev/ad8e can be used properly and houses my /home partition. > However, attempts to use /devs/rad8e, even for something as minor > as ``tunefs -n enable /devs/rad8e'' causes an instant panic. Please send us the details of the kernel panic (see the handbook for how to report usefull info. > May be, someone will address the naming problem in devfs too :) > > Ultimately, I'd like to be able to mount devfs as /dev, so I can > mount the / as read-only. Uhm, you need to be much more specific here... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message