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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!ub!csn!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie From: ivie@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.9] Some questions Message-ID: <1993Aug29.210548.58@cc.usu.edu> Date: 29 Aug 93 21:05:48 MDT References: <25p1ig$h5a@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 11 In article <25p1ig$h5a@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>, storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes: > > 1. What is this kernfs thing enabled by option KERNFS? Is > this some 4.4 BSD feature? What is it used for, and is it > some file system representation of innards of the kernel? The most important part of KERNFS is making sure that you get in an infinite loop via /kern/root if you ls -R /. :-) :-) Roger Ivie ivie@cc.usu.edu