[indiana-discuss] lofiadm kstat_create errors

[Alok Aggarwal]

On Fri, 30 May 2008, Andre Lue wrote:

> Greets,
>
> I did a lofiadm -C on some small iso's . I can mount them on a regular system but when I try to mount them on a ramfs system, I'm getting the error
>
> cmd
> lofiadm -a /mnt/tmp/fs.zlib /dev/lofi/1
>
> and got the error
> lofiadm: could not map file /mnt/tmp/fs.zlib to /dev/lofi/1: Bad address

What happens if you try the same thing with
a regular uncompressed iso?

> If I repeat the cmd
> kstat_create('lofi', 1, 'lofi1'): namespace collision
> lofiadm: could not map file /mnt/tmp/fs.zlib to /dev/lofi/1: Bad address
>
> can't load anything with lofiadm
>
> Can anyone provide some guidance. This only happens running on B89 ramfs. I have confirmed it last working on B84.

I haven't been able to reproduce this on my b90
machine. Lets take this offline since indiana 
isn't the same as nevada and I'll help you
debug this problem.

Alok