From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 23:31:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9617A1517B for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:31:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from home.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [207.76.204.203]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA04543; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:31:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@home.elischer.org To: Matthew Dillon Cc: John-Mark Gurney , Brian Beattie , "Matthew N. Dodd" , Chuck Robey , Wayne Cuddy , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: what is devfs? In-Reply-To: <199909210625.XAA01972@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG as I explained a few days ago, MFS explodes because it synthesises a device vnode The synthesized vnode is someohow confused as to whether it's a devfs vnode or a UFS vnode. I can't remember the exact problem but it may have something to do with using it as a methid aof getting to teh strategy routine.. I don't remember exaclty, but I think it may be possible to not do that any more. On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I think devfs is really cool. I don't think it needs to have > fancy persistence in order to be useful. > > Julian, there is a note in the LINT file saying that it doesn't > work with MFS. Is this still true? I want to use DEVFS in > the BOOTP diskless booting code, which uses MFS heavily. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message