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

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/38265; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38265: sometimes /kern directory can not be read
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:53:22 +0000

 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.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost