The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/35532; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/35532 (Impossible to update an amd64 to 4.0)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:17:24 +0100

 On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:10:03 +0000 (UTC)
 "Greg A. Woods" <woods@planix.com> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/35532; it has been
 > noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@planix.com>
 > To: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
 > Cc: <ef@math.uni-bonn.de>, <tron@netbsd.org>
 > Subject: Re: port-amd64/35532 (Impossible to update an amd64 to 4.0)
 > Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:09:27 -0500
 > 
 >  Note that the fix for this PR breaks init(8)'s attempt to create an
 > MFS filesystem for /dev, including in the netbsd-4 INSTALL systems,
 >  resulting in sysint failing with "openpty() failed" whenever it
 > tries to run any command in a window.
 >  
 >  The best fix is to totally eliminate the rediculous limit imposed by
 >  init(8) on size of the MFS partition.  Inodes are not that big.
 
 Or maybe the best fix would be to use tmpfs and stop using the old and
 slow mfs.
 
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