Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:05:37 -0700 From: Dionysos <dionysos@dionysos.yi.org> To: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Cc: james@m-a.net, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buildworld failure using two disks Message-ID: <20010127120537.A420@dionysos.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <m14MZdS-003pdFC@lyxys.ka.sub.org>; from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:59:38PM %2B0100 References: <20010126232127.A294@dionysos.yi.org> <m14MZdS-003pdFC@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:59:38PM +0100, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > Hi, > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:01:38PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:17:48PM -0700, Dionysos wrote: > >>> [..] > > >>> Using the latest -stable source I get an error at the beginning of > >>> the build only when I have /usr/obj mounted on a separate physical > >>> disk. > > >> It should work. Try blowing away /usr/obj. > > > already did more than once. To expand on this a bit, I tried doing some links > > in a context outside of make buildworld. Symbolic links do work across > > filesystems still but I continue to get errors when trying to make symbolic > > links across filesystems that are on different disks. I've contemplated > > sending in a PR for it, but I'll still entertain that something wierd (and > > fixable) is going on with my system in particular. Here's some output from my > > last try to link as well as uname -a output if it'll help... > > > dionysos# ln -sf /root/.login /usr/obj/.login.link.test > > ln: /usr/obj/.login.link.test: Operation not supported > > Could we see the output of "mount" please? Called without parameters it > should tell you some details about all mounted filesystems. > > Wolfgang > > Problem solved actually and I should have probably known better. When I created my /usr/obj partition, I had done so using partition magic and just created an msdos partition. Apparently, though the man page for ln doesn't state this, you can't make symbolic links across file systems of different type (or at least involving msdosfs). Once I reformatted it to ufs, it all worked fine. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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