From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 24 0:27:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F72437B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f4O7R8P22454; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:27:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200105240727.f4O7R8P22454@earth.backplane.com> To: Tor.Egge@fast.no Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: O_DIRECT patch committed to -current Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've committed the O_DIRECT patch to -current. It took about 6 hours to get -current running on one of my test boxes to test the patch. After several tries I finally gave up trying to buildworld on the test box (which by that time was hopelessly mixed up with partially installed kernels, modules, and worlds) and instead did a buildworld and buildkernel of -current on my main -stable box, then installworld and installkernel's it via NFS mounts of /usr/src and /usr/obj. To my complete amazement, that actually worked! And not having the source or object files on the -current machine itself means I can very easily reinstall -current on test boxes now by booting the 4.2 CD into an emergency shell and going from there. I highly recommend the methodology. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message