From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 18 11:59:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA6037B634 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18580; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:59:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA96451; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:59:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:59:39 -0400 (EDT) To: "Matthew Zahorik" Cc: Subject: Re: HELP! In-Reply-To: <014501bfa963$a5609550$1401eed8@mahatma> References: <00c501bfa955$203546e0$1401eed8@mahatma> <14588.42187.126783.219096@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <014501bfa963$a5609550$1401eed8@mahatma> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14588.44846.499922.61041@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Zahorik writes: > [shell1]:2:19pm:~% kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 2 0xfffffc0000300000 2a6e70 kernel > 2 1 0xfffffe00012c6000 14000 null.ko Hey, how did null.ko get loaded? Are you using nullfs? I'm not an FS person, but the mount_null() man page says: BUGS THIS FILESYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN <...> This is enough for me to suggest you get nullfs out of the picture before proceeding any further.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message