From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 17 19:17:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09326 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA09308; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 02:17:38 GMT (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28869; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd028864; Sat Apr 18 02:15:11 1998 Message-ID: <35380B75.15FB7483@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:09:57 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shmit@kublai.com CC: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, kjc@csl.sony.co.jp Subject: Re: Networking strategy for -current References: <199804170633.IAA03123@sos.freebsd.dk> <3536F91A.446B9B3D@whistle.com> <19980417211055.27018@kublai.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > ``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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message