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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:09:57 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        shmit@kublai.com
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, kjc@csl.sony.co.jp
Subject:   Re: Networking strategy for -current
Message-ID:  <35380B75.15FB7483@whistle.com>
References:  <199804170633.IAA03123@sos.freebsd.dk> <3536F91A.446B9B3D@whistle.com> <19980417211055.27018@kublai.com>

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Brian Cully wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 11:39:22PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > I hope to get together with Mike smith in the next week to try
> > knock out some of the devfs nits.
> >
> > As far as I'm concerned it's working. (I use it in production
> > every day.)
> > But thre are a few cosmetic things that need to be done.
> >
> > Have you tried it? I haven't seen a crash out of it since december.
> 
> If I boot with options DEVFS_ROOT my kernel panics with `unable to
> mount root'.  I've been holding off on sending anything until I
> can spend some time debugging the issue.
> 
> It may very well be something I'm doing wrong, but there are NO
> docs on this particular subject (not even in LINT, although I'm
> inclined to say that there oughta be something in section 4 or 9
> of the man pages).
> 
> --
> Brian Cully                                             <shmit@erols.com>
> ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung
>   upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the
>   best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There)

how many times do I have to repeat..





I'M not talking about what's int the tree, but rather what is at:
http://www.freebsd.org/~julian

DEVFS_ROOT is deprecated.. don't use it..
use DEVFS and SLICE instead.

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