Re: kern/43589 (Rump mount process panics with assertion on file images)

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/43589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/43589 (Rump mount process panics with assertion on file
 images)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:24:46 -0400

 On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:23:09 +0000 (UTC)
 pooka%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: Rump mount process panics with assertion on file images
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: pooka%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:23:08 +0300
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > rump is a bit funny in the sense that it is unsupported in the 
 > NetBSD 5 release and supported only in current.  If you still want 
 > to use it, your options are:
 >   
 > 1) use rump from -current sources on NetBSD 5
 > 2) install -current wholesale
 > 3) wait for NetBSD 6.0
 > 
 > I personally do "1".  I wrote instructions for this quite a while
 > ago, but I didn't get anyone to test them, so I didn't publish
 > them.  If you want give them a whirl, I put them up at:
 > 
 >         http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/pooka/rump_on_5.txt
 > 
 > I'd like to close this PR. 
 
 I'm surprised that if using -current rump sources on netbsd-5 is easy,
 a pullup wouldn't be (and it does not matter if it doesn't make it in
 the 5.1 releases), but it could make it 5.2 if it was pulled up to
 netbsd-5...  and it would fix a feature which is broken on stable
 releases (what most users will be running, with all the rump_<foo>.8
 man pages advertizing the vnd-less file mounting feature).
 
 Oh well, at least I tried :)  The feature is not of great importance to
 me, and I cannot request or commit changes myself, so feel free to close
 the PR if you won't fix it.
 
 Thanks,
 -- 
 Matt