From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 01:22:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA12970 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:22:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA12780 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA19415 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:21:47 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21873 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:21:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA26963 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:20:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601180920.KAA26963@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:20:00 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601180346.TAA05868@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 17, 96 07:46:31 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > Recent testing I did with devfs showed that it was eating up vnodes like > crazy. All I had to do was stat a devfs file and it would eat another vnode. > The system seems to eventually recycle them, but something isn't quite right > about this. I haven't looked any further into this yet. Speaking of devfs, did somebody actually try mounting it over /dev, and see what happens? I noticed that some SCSI control devices are still missing (and didn't get the time to hook the appropriate call into the drivers yet), i'm curious whether more serious things are still omitted? -- 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. ;-)