Geoff Wing wrote:

> Heyla,
> is kernfs working for anyone these days?  Seems to have died for me at
> least a few months back.  Maybe I've a wonky config somewhere.
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks      Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> kernfs              1         1         0   100%    /kern
> 
> % ls -l /kern/
> total 32
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel            11 Jun  9 14:32 boottime
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel           248 Jun  9 15:34 copyright
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel            18 Jun  9 15:34 hostname
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel             4 Jun  9 15:34 hz
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel            20 Jun  9 15:34 loadavg
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel         32752 Jun  9 15:34 msgbuf
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel             5 Jun  9 15:34 pagesize
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel             7 Jun  9 15:34 physmem
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator       0, 0 Apr 28  2003 rootdev
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator       3, 0 Dec 21  2003 rrootdev
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel            18 Jun  9 15:34 time
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel           115 Jun  9 15:34 version
> 
> % cat -v /kern/[a-qs-z]*
> %
> 
> rootdev/rrootdev do seem to be working.  Everything else is dead.

I had a quick look at this.  All the read ops were converted to use some
splay tree thingy a while back, but the splay tree is never initialised.
There seems to be a heap of complexity there that's never worked.  At
that stage, I gave up looking any further.

Simon.