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Do we need the following for building a CODA kernel? pseudo-device vcoda 4 #coda minicache <-> venus comm. "options CODA" is OK in compiling the kernel. Do I need both of them if I am just running a CODA server? --- Lou On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:40:45AM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote: > > Do the Coda developers have any plans to support FreeBSD again? The userland > > part has not compiled for many years, and the kernel support is so broken > > that I would be surprised if it had ever worked (venus calls vfs_mount(), > > vfs_mount() calls VFS_ROOT() which calls venus -> deadlock). > > I'm not sure why fixes don't end up in the FreeBSD tree. 5.3.20 fixed > all known compilation issues at the time. The vfs_mount recursing back > to venus is fixed in the current development tree, basically unifying > the code with Linux where we always forked a child that performs the > mount syscall (NetBSD needed that fork as well). > > Well, it looks like I'm going to have to do some FreeBSD kernel module > hacking anyways to get the current development tree to work. The > Coda-realms support requires some changes to the venus-kernel interface. > > Jan > > >Received on 2003-03-05 15:06:16