Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:08:17 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internal clock Message-ID: <19970402210817.YJ08249@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704021757.KAA13882@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 2, 1997 10:57:17 -0700 References: <199704021757.KAA13882@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > If you had ever used it (with options DEVFS_ROOT, it's already there), > > you knew what the bugs are. > I've used it. For what it's worth, prior to the Lite2 merge in 3.0, > my system didn't crash when I unmounted things. That's not the biggest problem. Right now, it suffers serious aliasing problems that even prevent the system to start at all (it doesn't find its root filesystem entry, or rather, the vnode is being revoked while opening the root device, resulting in an EIO when trying to mount it). Once i've sorted these problems out, i'll continue to make DEVFS usable as a default. If persistancy is once the last remaining problem, and nobody is stepping forward to implement the all-singing- all-dancing union layer shadowing solution, i'll probably implement a startup/shutdown script-based solution. If something better comes up later, it can still be replaced. I think FreeBSD 3.0 might be shipping with DEVFS as the default, but it's still ``quarter o'mile'' to go. -- 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. ;-)
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