Using block device as cnfs buffer under FreeBSD.

[Russ Allbery]

newsmaster <newsmaster at alkar.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> записано:

>> news.notice will hopefully have more detailed messages, at least
>> including the errno information.  Usually the problem is that mmap
>> isn't supported on block devices (it's somewhat rare for this to be
>> supported).

> I'm sorry, there was a little problem with syslog configuration. Now I see:

> innd: CNFS-sm: CNFSinitdisks: mmap for /dev/da3s1 offset 0 l
> en 131072 failed: Invalid argument

> What does it mean?

Almost certainly "sorry, mmap isn't supported on block devices."  That's
the message that you usually get if it isn't.

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