FreeBSD 6.1 - nullfs not working with PAE

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 16 10:32:19 PDT 2006


On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:10:53PM +0200, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to setup a system with 8GB of RAM, so I've enabled PAE option.
> 
> But when I try using a mount_nullfs, I always have this error:
> 
> 	mount_nullsfs: Operation not supported by  device
> 
> No problem arises when I compile kernel without PAE.
> 
> I cannot find any documentation about nullfs and PAE.
> Why is a so simple filesystem (nullfs) incompatible with PAE?

Are you using nullfs from a module?  Modules are incompatible between
PAE and !PAE, so the easiest thing to do is compile them all into your
kernel.

Kris
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