From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 14 11:44:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF7214D10 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 11:44:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21535; Fri, 14 May 1999 20:44:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA14183; Fri, 14 May 1999 20:43:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Luoqi Chen Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Today's kernel crashes on starting X In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 14:24:26 EDT." <199905141824.OAA06861@lor.watermarkgroup.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:43:53 +0200 Message-ID: <14181.926707433@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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