Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:59:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin), alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nullfs broken on alpha? Message-ID: <200006082159.OAA22241@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006081101271.15951-100000@semuta.feral.com> from "Matthew Jacob" at Jun 08, 2000 11:01:44 AM
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Matthew Jacob writes: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > I was building in a nullfs mounted on top of an NFS directory when this > > > happened. Sigh, not much info to go on.... Anyone seen anything similar? > > > > >From the i386 LINT: > > > > # NB: The NULL, PORTAL, UMAP and UNION filesystems are known to be > > # buggy, and WILL panic your system if you attempt to do anything with > > # them. They are included here as an incentive for some enterprising > > # soul to sit down and fix them. > > Grump. I thought was from 1997. I guess nobody's been enterprising. They work on my machines. I could maybe wrap up the 20M of diffs I've made to FreeBSD since 1998 or so in a month or two, if you would actually use them. I've had no luck getting them into FreeBSD because to break them up into small enough chunks removes any obvious reason for needing the changes (i.e. when they are chunked small enough, they appear gratuitous until you add enough of them together that they are no longer chunked small enough). I have to say that for net booting FreeBSD off of old machines that can't support 32 bit major/minor numbers, nothing beats a working version of Julian's devfs. Remind me to buy a laptop, and I'll bring a copy of my system into one of the user group meetings some time. As a bonus, I'll show you quotas working on msdosfs and ext2fs as a VFS stacking layer... 8-p. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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