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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:26:32 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/locate/locate updatedb.sh
Message-ID:  <20071017152632.GN31826@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <86y7e1ex9i.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200710152209.l9FM9Jv3017150@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071016102013.GE23043@submonkey.net> <4714F06B.7070702@FreeBSD.org> <20071016225906.GK23043@submonkey.net> <20071017122837.GM31826@elvis.mu.org> <86y7e1ex9i.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> [071017 05:33] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> writes:
> > Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> writes:
> > > While userland can tell if a filesystem is pseudo or not, (see
> > > lsvfs), I'm not sure that we can reliably tell whether a device is
> > > removable or not (cf. my camera, USB key, iPod, etc.).
> > fstab(5) gives some hints, "noauto" would be a giveaway as well as
> > value of 0 for 'fs_passno' is also a hint.
> 
> No, fs_passno is pretty much always zero except for UFS / UFS2.

That is because we do not have checkers for the filesystems
which we should.
-- 
- Alfred Perlstein



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