From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 8 15:16:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from eel.radicalmedia.com (eel.radicalmedia.com [204.254.246.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7027437BCDE for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phiber@eel.radicalmedia.com) Received: (from phiber@localhost) by eel.radicalmedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA26660; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:16:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:16:28 -0400 From: Mark Abene To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nullfs broken on alpha? Message-ID: <20000608181628.C25023@radicalmedia.com> References: <200006082159.OAA22241@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <200006082159.OAA22241@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:59:02PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well I for one am very interested in obtaining your diffs. Specifically I'd like to see stable PORTAL support, among other things. At least up to speed with NetBSD's. Cheers, -Mark On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:59:02PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message