Subject: Re: savecore_flags="-z"
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/04/1999 09:58:26
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

# 
# In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9912032200350.20586-100000@starwolf.com>
# Greywolf writes:
# >I'd like to see the kernel attempt to explicitly report the filesystems
# >mounted marked dirty or clean (Pyramid OSx did this):
# >
# >	FYI:  Marking the following filesystems CLEAN:
# >	/dev/iop00a (/), /dev/iop00g (/usr), /dev/iop01d (/export),
# >	/dev/iop02a (/altroot), /dev/iop02g (/opt), /dev/iop03a (/tmp),
# >	and the following filesystems DIRTY:
# >	/dev/iop12o (/usr/spool/news)
# >
# >[The above is from a literal reboot of a Pyramid 98x0]
# 
# mm, but,  instead of emulating OSx features, it'd be much cooler to port
# NetBSD to the OSx hardware...

Had I a Pyramid to volunteer, I'd try to arrange it.  This was over seven
years ago.

And Pyramid isn't exactly open about their processor architecture,
last I looked.

Are they still in business...hmmm.  No, looks like they've been
subsumed by either Amdahl or Siemens.

				--*greywolf;
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