Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:11:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn subsystem Message-ID: <199807212111.OAA01951@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:45:41 BST." <199807211945.UAA19823@awfulhak.org>
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> > > 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
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