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From: rst@liciren.li.co.uk (Richard Thombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Cannot NFS mount (386bsd Options?)
Message-ID: <1774@lucifer.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 93 12:58:58 GMT
References: <1769@lucifer.UUCP> <1srrem$e04@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1sso3e$38l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Organization: Lucas Powertrain Systems, Electronic Control Group, UK
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Look in /sys/i386/conf/ALL, this kernel has all the options enabled. However,
I don't know what half of them do! Here is a list, commented by the ones I
do know about. It's sadly incomplete, perhaps some kind soul will annotate the
rest for me?

KTRACE		Kernel tracing? Dunno really.
FIFO		Something to do with networking I think
QUOTA		Disc quotaing, do man -k quota for more info
MFS
NFS		Presumably NFS means NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER?
IMP
INET
NS
ISO
TPIP
EON
CCITT
ISOFS
DDB		DDB is the kernel debugger, Ctrl+Alt+Esc to activate
FDESC
KERNFS		Kernel filesystem, useful files in /kernfs
SCSI		SCSI support :-)

"COMPAT_43"	I can guess, but I love a real explanation
"TCP_COMPAT_42" for these two

Actually, on the subject of kernels, my current kernel causes the following
message from the loader:

bss overlaps loader, kernel must bzero

What does this mean? Will the kernel automatically zero all the bss or what?

R.
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