[indiana-discuss] lofiadm kstat_create errors

[Alok Aggarwal]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Moinak Ghosh wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Alok Aggarwal <Alok.Aggarwal at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
>   One probability is that this was caused by mentioning
>   and explicit mapping: /dev/lofi/1  when there was already
>   something else mapped to it - just guessing.

Actually in that case, a device busy error gets
returned not a bad address.

Alok