From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 2:15:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761C037B43E; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7S9ErN05093; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:14:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: gjohnson@gs.verio.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:06:44 +0200." <76354.967453604@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:14:53 +0200 Message-ID: <5091.967454093@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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