Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:25:51 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/79715: MNT_NODEV should be removed from sys/mount.h Message-ID: <29054.1113063951@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:20:22 GMT." <200504091620.j39GKMBc071772@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <200504091620.j39GKMBc071772@freefall.freebsd.org>, Erez Zadok writes: > > I'm perfectly OK with removing it, but didn't out of fear of what > > I might break. I guess this was a loose-loose scenario... > > If the actual NODEV functionallity had been removed from the kernel itself, > then older binaries, precompiled with whatever NODEV was before, will get > confused b/c users will expect "nodev" to work, but it will silently not > work. Well, it's actually the other way around: NODEV is not an option, it is always the case for all filesystems except DEVFS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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