Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:14:53 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: gjohnson@gs.verio.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs Message-ID: <5091.967454093@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:06:44 %2B0200." <76354.967453604@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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In message <76354.967453604@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:35:26 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Do you have devfs in /etc/fstab ? That is *not* needed, /sbin/init >> will mount devfs on /dev automatically. > >Out of curiosity, what's the motivation behind this decision? Why don't >you allow defvs to be mounted on an arbitrary mount point? You can also mount it other places: mount -t devfs foo /usr/jail/jail1/dev (but the "no new devices" feature is not committed yet, I'm still working on it). The reason for mounting it in /sbin/init is historical and possibly wrong but it does have the benefit that it will DTRT for people. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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