On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Philip Blundell wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > 
> > >  > Other than rbootd, the only non-obvious thing is remounting
> > >  > the root filesystem to read/write in 1K blocks so Linux' nfs
> > >  > can handle it...
> > > 
> > > Oof!  That's unfortunate!  While you can remount root w/ 1k blocks,
> > > your swap is still using the 4k block size!
> > 
> > Well, the correct thing to do is to work out why the Linux system doesn't
> > like 4k blocks.  It certainly _should_ be OK. 
> 
> It's a Well Known Problem - causes problems with Suns as well.
> Incidentally, the recommended fix for this with SunOS is to 
> use adb to patch the kernel binary :-)

Just because it's well known doesn't mean it's acceptable.  Somebody
should find out exactly what goes wrong, and fix it if at all possible.

phil