problem in ARLA FreeBSD installation instructions

Assar Westerlund assar at sics.se
Mon Dec 14 21:14:58 CET 1998


"Todd A. Rannow" <rannow at networkcs.com> writes:
> The instructions in the INSTALL file for FreeBSD are wrong if this is a
> first time start up of arla.  The modload must be done the first time
> so that the /dev/xfs0 will be created.

Thanks for your comments.  I have done the following change to
INSTALL.

/assar

Index: INSTALL
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/arla/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -w -u -w -r1.46 INSTALL
--- INSTALL	1998/12/06 21:16:47	1.46
+++ INSTALL	1998/12/14 20:12:09
@@ -136,7 +136,10 @@
 
 FreeBSD
   
-Do like in {Net|Open} except for doing the modload you can just do:
+Do like in {Net|Open} except that after the first time (when /dev/xfs0
+exists) you can skip the modload since the module with automatically
+be loaded by mount_xfs assuming you have copied xfs_mod.o to /lkm with
+something like the following commands:
 
   mkdir /lkm
   cp /usr/arla/bin/xfs_mod.o /lkm/xfs_mod.o






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