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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: nullfs: Panicing...
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 13:45:06 -0500 (EST)
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> According to Joao Carlos Mendes Luis:
> > approach was to use nullfs, but everytime I try to edit (vi)
> > a file in the nullfs mounted directory, the system panics.  Everything
> > else works (or seens to work) ok.
> 
> >   Is this already known ?
> 
> Yes.Some of the special filesystems are broken since we got an unified
> VM/buffer cache (just after FreeBSD 2.0). John said he will fix them for
> 2.2.
> 
I hope to fix them, but the ~hsu VFS stuff needs to be committed.  I am
working on LFS (with a practically complete re-do for efficiency.)

John