From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 14 11:24:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D49214CD5 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 11:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06861; Fri, 14 May 1999 14:24:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:24:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199905141824.OAA06861@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Subject: Re: Today's kernel crashes on starting X Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > This was due to a kludge in mfs implementation. Try change NUMCDEV in > > kern_conf.c to 255. > > Are you saying that there is a bug in the mfs implementation and a fix > will be commited soon? (and change NUMCDEV until then) > > Or are you saying, the mfs implementation is now considered correct (but > there are some kludges in there) and that changing NUMCDEV in kern_conf.c > to 255 is the perminate fix? > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > This is a fundamental problem with mfs' design, mfs steals bdev major 255 for its private use. One thing we could do is to have mfs legally acquire this major number, i.e., setup a devsw structure and register with device conf system. This problem probably would go away after we have a fully functional DEVFS. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message