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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 95 18:30:17 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        swallace@eng.uci.edu, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bare bones kernel
Message-ID:  <9508070030.AA23707@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199508062100.OAA03760@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Aug 6, 95 02:00:36 pm

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> >Could someone explain to me why you must have "options FFS" and
> >"device npx0" in the kernel config file? Otherwise you get a linker
> >error:
> 
> >vfs_init.o: Undefined symbol `_vfs_set' referenced from text segment
> 
>    In our current design of the dynamic VFS stuff, at least *one* filesystem
> is required...it doesn't matter which one. I don't consider this a bug.

I'll have to think about whether this would really constitute a bug or
not, and then get back to you.

My gut feeling is that you should be able to run without a static file
system, or at least without a vnops table pointing to a Heidemann style
VFS.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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