Re: kern/38265: sometimes /kern directory can not be read

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:30:00AM +0000, dlagno%rambler.ru@localhost wrote:
 > individual files can be read:
 > 
 > $ cat /kern/hz          
 > 100
 > 
 > However directory /kern sometimes fails to be read:

mrg says that the problem is that /kern/rootdev and /kern/rrootdev
don't work unless the real root device vnodes from /dev are in the
vnode cache, and thus ls -l in /dev will cause /kern to reappear.

This worked just now for me on a 5.99.7 box but not on a 4.99.72 box,
so it may not be the only problem but it's probably at least part of
the problem.

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David A. Holland
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