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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). huh? I am running coda from fairly recent CVS on a FreeBSD 4.7ish system, and have been doing so for years (1998? Well, recent coda on recent FreeBSD). While there is occasional OS-independent coda lossage (reintegration, rpc2 timeouts, etc.), I have not had significant FreeBSD-specific problems, and when I have and have sent fixes Jan (and Peter before) has committed patches promptly. Or do you mean the ports dirs rather than CVS coda. I have not tried FreeBSD 5. Brett is working on an alternative mount scheme that doesn't have the deadlock/hang problem; this is also an issue on NetBSD 1.6. With the coming realms code, kernel support will need updating on all platforms. This is minor, but it might be a good time to address any other issues. I know the whole locking/refcounting bit is somewhat off on NetBSD 1.6. Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com>Received on 2003-03-06 10:30:53