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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:15:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: what is devfs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909222313080.55994-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909202328440.22714-100000@home.elischer.org>

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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> as I explained a few days ago,
> MFS explodes because it synthesises a device vnode
> 
> The synthesized vnode is someohow confused as to whether it's a devfs
> vnode or a UFS vnode.
> I can't remember the exact problem but it may have something to do with
> using it as a methid aof getting to teh strategy routine..
> I don't remember exaclty, but I think it may be possible to not do that
> any  more.

I discovered this the hard way when I tried to build picobsd floppy with
DEVFS. If you look in the archives, I think I posted the complete
backtrace.

Andrzej Bialecki

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