From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 7:30:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.209.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F00EA1553B for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 07:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru) Received: (qmail 9510 invoked from network); 8 Dec 1999 15:30:09 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 8 Dec 1999 15:30:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA30309; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:30:03 +0600 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:30:03 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mx0?? In-Reply-To: <199912081510.KAA12678@server.baldwin.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! Thanx for reponse. However.... > > portalfs works, but I've no experienec with it. umapfs doen't work at the > moment because it needs stacking layers to work. > Well, I actually asked to explain them to me, not about whether they work or not :-) > > 1) I thought that these babies will allow me to have approx the same as > > /proc under linux, since PROCFS in FBSD yields me _pathetic_ stuff. > > However, I get /proc/fd dir, with filedescrs (apparently), but there's no > > FDESC option enabled in GENERIC kernel. Ideas? > > /proc is very adequate in doing what its job is: displaying information > specific to individual processes and not system-wide kernel specific stuff. > The system-wide stuff goes in KERNFS. Also, I believe that in the Linux 2.3.x > kernel, /proc has been cleaned up with many parts moved over to /kern where > they belong. :) > OK. So why only PROCFS is mounted by default? > > 2) KERNFS. Is it behaviour the same as of procfs? Meaning, I have > > to have a /proc (/kern) and apporpriate line in /etc/fstab, and I cannot > > mount it after boot? (are my last 3 questions correct?) > > You can mount it fine after boot, in fact, you can umount and mount procfs as > well, there's just no good reason to be doing so. Here's my line from > /etc/fstab: > > kern /kern kernfs rw 0 0 > I've got the same ;-) And you know what's cool. I can mount/umount /proc many times! Why shouldn't that be checked? Same with /kern.... > As far as fdescfs, it is already "mounted" for you at /dev/fd. If you want, > you can mount it somewhere else as well. AFAIK, it works fine. > Hmm, I know it's alreay mounted. But where is corresponfing line in fstab? Cheers, ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message