From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 22 14:15:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F9015802 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:15:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 57CF51916; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:15:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D6149CF; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:15:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:15:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Julian Elischer Cc: Matthew Dillon , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: what is devfs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 // 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