Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 22:45:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arg! MFS broken Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907242240590.43777-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <47364.932848590@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907242226470.43777-100000@freja.webgiro.com>, Andrze > j Bialecki writes: > >On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Mark Huizer wrote: > > > >> > > >> > > MFS is badly broken when used in a diskless configuration. I am trying > >> > > to track it all down but it is very, very frustrating. > >> > > > >> > > Also BOOTP seems to be broken -- rootdev is not being setup any more > >> > > and I can't figure out which commit broke it. > >> > > >> > I'm sorry, I don't have either in my arsenal currently. > >> I found that trying to build a PicoBSD floppy was a sure way of crashing > >> my current box :-( Perhaps that is a nice testing environment? > > > >Then you should investigate this further, because it looks like some bug > >in vn(4) code - picobsd build doesn't do anything unusual except that... > > I built a release (which also uses vn(4)) yesterday, so to some extent > of the concept vn(4) works. I'm very interested in a traceback of > this panic... If interrupted at (in)appropriate place, picobsd build process can leave vn(4) configured but left without underlying file. I shoudl probably test various scenarios here, like: * vn configured, remove file, unconfig vn * vn configured, mounted, unconfigure vn etc, etc.. vn(4) should be foolproof , at least it shouldn't panic the system. But you're right, we need a trace first... 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-current" in the body of the message
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