From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 21 14:14:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14474 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14405 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01951; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807212111.OAA01951@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Brian Somers cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Alfred Perlstein , Joel Ray Holveck , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn subsystem In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:45:41 BST." <199807211945.UAA19823@awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:11:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > hrm, not really there was some traffic on the lists a few weeks/months > > > back about it being broken, but that's all i know. > > > > Erm, wonderful. Can we have some commentary from someone who's > > actually proven this either way now? Like I said, my own usage of the > > vn driver has not shown any such instability. If someone who's > > _actually used it_ can now comment on its instability, we'll get a lot > > further. It's quite possible to get the 'vn' driver into a state where the device has been vnconfig'ed, but you can't un-vnconfig it (you get ENXIO). This usually bites me when I'm configing up a floppy image for bootstrapping; IIRC it generally stems from getting the (undocumented) -s slices option wrong. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message