/dev/null panic still alive

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri May 23 15:27:55 PDT 2003


In message <3ECE8894.2000508 at tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> Somewhere, probably under /compat/linux/dev you have some device nodes
>> on a UFS filesystem.  You shouldn't need those (I think ?) and they
>> are likely the cause of this.
>
>True enough. As for needing it, tell that to linux_base. I'm an innocent 
>bystander.
>
>> Kirk's on vacation and I havn't heard back from rwatson what he think
>> we should do.
>
>He did mention he thought trustedbsd had a patch for this.

Yes, unfortunately, that patch which is also in -current does not work.

It works for VFIFO's but not for VCHR

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