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- From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 16:46:58 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Message-ID: <JIK.92Nov10114657@pit-manager.mit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: randy@megatek.com's message of Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:30:57 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov9.233057.19513@megatek.com> randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis) writes:
-
- Well, actually, the generic kernel has LOFS compiled in, by
- default. Since you, or someone else administering the machine,
- must have removed it if you aren't running the generic kernel, YOU
- are supposed to *know*... :-) Not really something that you can
- blame the Sun documentation about, although I agree with lots of
- complaints about the docs.
-
- I am the only one who has done anything to the machine since it was
- shipped to us from Sun. The first thing I did that modified the
- kernel was install Newsprint, which created a GENERIC_SMALL-ASYNCHIO
- kernel. I had assumed that if, before the Newsprint installation was
- run, my machine was running a GENERIC kernel, the Newsprint
- installation would have created a GENERIC-ASYNCHIO rather than a
- GENERIC_SMALL-ASYNCHIO.
-
- GENERIC_SMALL does *not* have LOFS enabled.
-
- Therefore, either (a) Newsprint screwed me over by installing a kernel
- based on GENERIC_SMALL when it should have based it on GENERIC, or (b)
- you're wrong, and the machine was not shipped to me with a
- LOFS-capable kernel installed.
-
- --
- Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu
- MIT Information Systems/Athena Moderator, news.answers
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