Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 03:55:12 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: alexlh@funk.org, damascus@eden.rutgers.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeze when trying to mount FAT32 Message-ID: <199901081955.DAA46630@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 04:53:40 %2B1100." <199901081753.EAA21909@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> >This happened to me a few times in current. Seemed to happen to me only if
> >I accidentally typed in mount /dev/wd0s1 /msdos first. (this was not
> >fat32.. but still i got the lock up). And then i typed in mount -t msdos
> >/dev/wd0s1 /msdos.. and it froze. hardlock. mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos
> >the first time always seems to work for me.
>
> vfsload() still execs /sbin/modload to load an LKM. This should fail,
> because -current doesn't have any LKMs. Everyone should have removed
> the old ones a week or so ago when they stopped being installed. LKMs
> and modules are only valid when compiled with the same headers as the
> kernel.
Actually, it will try to kldload() it first and will fall back to the old
way. vfsload() is kinda redundant now, as mount(2) will load it if
needed. We can remove the #ifdef FreeBSD code in the mount_* routines and
have just plain mount("msdos", ...); which will load the module if
needed.
> Bruce
Cheers,
-Peter
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