From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Jun 28 21:15:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B8C37B5AC; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:15:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id GAA07837; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:15:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21189; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:15:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:15:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Andy Newman , "Mark W. Krentel" , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, clefevre@citeweb.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic running linux binaries from ext2fs In-Reply-To: <395A4389.39DC4084@cup.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I recall a message a while (i.e, months) ago on either -stable > > or -hackers concerning this. ISRT it's a VM system problem, it > > can't demand page off ext2fs. I didn't follow it closely (no > > ext2fs here) so that may not be entirely correct but sounds > > reasonable given the symptons. > This means that you can't load/run *any* binaries from an ext2 fs and > not just Linux binaries, right? If the above is indeed the problem, then, yes. This would mean that you could not run anything off an ext2 fs. If so, then your solution should be rather simple: add demand paging to ext2 fs. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message