From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 6 23:14:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hal9000.bsdonline.org (ffaxvawx3-4-047.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC9437B502 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 23:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hal9000.bsdonline.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B81291F59; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 02:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 02:14:45 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: More panics (different hardware) Message-ID: <20001007021445.B10082@hal9000.bsdonline.org> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable References: <86610.970640332@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86610.970640332@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:18:52PM -0700 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan and List, > Still, you've proven there's a clear bad interaction here. Thanks! You're welcome, I think. Before I go crashing my box, collecting debugging output and core dumps, I wanted to make sure this will be helpful. Please let me know. This is something which I find a bit confusing. FDESC is in LINT with all the "safe" filesytems, unlike DEVFS which has has something of a warning above it. I know that UNION has warning and that the fdesc filesystem uses a union mount but... I don't have UNION in my kernel! To clarify, fdesc(5) mentions that it requires a union mount, however LINT does not specify any UNION dependency and clearly mounting fdesc "mostly works" without even having UNION in the kernel. Just to add to the confusion, mount_std(8) considers fdesc ``standard'', defining ``standard'' to include union mounts. This is, of course, a semantic issue, not a technical one. I can't tell whether I'm missing a piece of the puzzle or if there really is a discrepancy. If it's a documentation issue, I'd be happy to offer a diff for LINT - if I understand what's going on, that is. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@altavista.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message