Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:15:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what is devfs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909222313080.55994-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909202328440.22714-100000@home.elischer.org>
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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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. I discovered this the hard way when I tried to build picobsd floppy with DEVFS. If you look in the archives, I think I posted the complete backtrace. Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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