From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 25 12:52:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA26526 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 12:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA26516 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 12:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA19843 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:52:29 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA23882 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:52:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA22070 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:31:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607251731.TAA22070@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DEVFS To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:31:24 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <397.838278377@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 25, 96 09:06:17 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I'd actually like to see this done in the kernel when "root" is initially > >mounted read-only. > > Well, I just stuck it in /sbin/init to have it somewhere... > At present the system wedges with a process hung in "ufslk2" > so it's not much use yet... That's bad news. I almost had it running some time ago with a similar hack to yours (mounted from inside /sbin/init). I remember that it was basically working, except syslogd, but those are also still unresolved: Device od0a: name slot allocation failed (E=17) Device rod0a: name slot allocation failed (E=17) Device od0c: name slot allocation failed (E=17) Device rod0c: name slot allocation failed (E=17) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)