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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:15:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        Andy Newman <atrn@zeta.org.au>, "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@dreamscape.com>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, clefevre@citeweb.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic running linux binaries from ext2fs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006290613380.21182-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
In-Reply-To: <395A4389.39DC4084@cup.hp.com>

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> > 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



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