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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$h5a@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: Utah State University
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In article <25p1ig$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