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- From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
- Message-ID: <EMCGUIRE.92Nov10104850@fuller.intellection.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 16:48:50 GMT
- References: <JIK.92Nov6132019@pit-manager.mit.edu> <JIK.92Nov9124104@pit-manager.mit.edu>
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- Sender: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Organization: Intellection, Inc.
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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.
-
- However, desktop workstations (IPC and IPX that I know of) do not have
- the GENERIC kernel installed: instead, they are delivered with the
- GENERIC_SMALL kernel. GENERIC_SMALL excludes a variety of
- capabilities (LOFS for one), leaves out some devices, and has 4,
- rather than 8, maxusers.
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