On Thu, 09 Nov 1995 17:55:12 -0800 
 David Gluss <david@pure.com> wrote:

 > No, the underlying file is local; it's part of the boot floppy
 > construction sequence:
 > dd if=/dev/zero of=inst-11.fs bs=100k count=12
 > vnconfig -v -c /dev/vnd0a inst-11.fs
 > newfs...
 > mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt
 > ...
 > # all OK so far
 > sh MAKEDEV floppy
 > panic: locking against myself

I dunno what the problem might be ... unless, perhaps you're using unionfs, or,
like I said, maybe the file that the vnd is made of is on an NFS server.
Other than those two suggestions, I'm afraid I have no answer at the moment :-(

Though, I've been using the vnd _a lot_ lately, and haven't seen any lossage
of this nature.

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