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Date:      Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:11:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: zfs only mounting "root" after reboot
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Thomas Schweikle wrote:

> FreeBSD. It is merely the same as what FreeBSD has at /proc and is
> mounted at /usr/compat/linux/proc (which is linked to
>
> is normally mounted at /dev/fd.
>
> There are some other pseudo filesystems you may or may not need to
> mount them -- it depends on what programs you run ...! Some of them
> mount to /usr/compat, some to /dev (some of them then link to
> /usr/compat/<somename> -- these need /usr to be mounted).

Ah, yes, this is the more mundane "the mountpoint must exist for the mount
to succeed" issue.

I don't see any documentation of it in the obvious places in the handbook,
though, so thanks for pointing it out.

-Ben



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