From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 8 20:23: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313A937BB5B for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:22:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA20851; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:22:47 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:22:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Terry Lambert Cc: Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nullfs broken on alpha? In-Reply-To: <200006082159.OAA22241@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So, err, uh, there's a lot in this mail, but the obvious questions are: 1. Why haven't you put the changes into FreeBSD? 2. Why don't we also have a working devfs checked in? On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message