Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:22:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nullfs broken on alpha? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006082022100.34942-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200006082159.OAA22241@usr05.primenet.com>
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So, err, uh, there's a lot in this mail, but the obvious questions are: 1. Why haven't you put the changes into FreeBSD? 2. Why don't we also have a working devfs checked in? On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Matthew Jacob writes: > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > > > I was building in a nullfs mounted on top of an NFS directory when this > > > > happened. Sigh, not much info to go on.... Anyone seen anything similar? > > > > > > >From the i386 LINT: > > > > > > # NB: The NULL, PORTAL, UMAP and UNION filesystems are known to be > > > # buggy, and WILL panic your system if you attempt to do anything with > > > # them. They are included here as an incentive for some enterprising > > > # soul to sit down and fix them. > > > > Grump. I thought was from 1997. I guess nobody's been enterprising. > > They work on my machines. I could maybe wrap up the 20M of diffs > I've made to FreeBSD since 1998 or so in a month or two, if you > would actually use them. I've had no luck getting them into FreeBSD > because to break them up into small enough chunks removes any obvious > reason for needing the changes (i.e. when they are chunked small > enough, they appear gratuitous until you add enough of them together > that they are no longer chunked small enough). > > I have to say that for net booting FreeBSD off of old machines that > can't support 32 bit major/minor numbers, nothing beats a working > version of Julian's devfs. > > Remind me to buy a laptop, and I'll bring a copy of my system into > one of the user group meetings some time. As a bonus, I'll show > you quotas working on msdosfs and ext2fs as a VFS stacking layer... > > 8-p. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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