Subject: Re: the 'hanging' mount...an update
To: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/07/1999 01:44:51
> > I didn't send-pr things like this because:
> >
> > a) it's right at the fork- a lot of people might be paying
> > attention to the current state of affairs, and PR's are to be
> > reported against *releases* (I would think).
> > b) the pr's I file tend to not be responded to (remember the
> > ncr bug? I've filed a couple of other alpha related ones that
> > seemed to languish too). Maybe I don't file good enough reports-
> > but the lack of response doesn't encourage me to file more..
>
> Update your boot blocks and tell us if that fixed the problem you have
> seen in kern/6871. There was a problem there which caused one of my
> ncr problems.
Thanks for the pointer, I will- but in this case the NCR isn't a boot
device.
>
> > c) I'm assuming that I'll have to look at it since the for
> > the diffs I published between working and non-working kernels- the
> > authors of said diffs declined to respond- or have been busy doing
> > other things- whatever...
>
> I am miles away to understand the vm system, but it wasn't clear for me
> what timezone you used for the two dates you mentioned.
Well I'm such a CVS idiot that *I* didn't really know what dates I was
getting. Manuel Bouyer correctly figured out that I off by a day in my
spread.
-matt