Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:43:53 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Today's kernel crashes on starting X Message-ID: <14181.926707433@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 14:24:26 EDT." <199905141824.OAA06861@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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In message <199905141824.OAA06861@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes: >> > 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. I would prefer if somebody would make MFS register a devsw* entry now, because that would also work if/when DEVFS comes to town... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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