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Date:      Sat, 03 Jul 2004 22:05:55 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tweaking mounted filesystems by fsid 
Message-ID:  <54739.1088885155@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jul 2004 13:48:32 MDT." <40E70D90.4090304@freebsd.org> 

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In message <40E70D90.4090304@freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes:

>Can't comment on your main questions, but there has been talk about
removing nmount since the work was never finished and the benefits
>never realized.  If you'd like to breath some life into it, feel free.

That would only give us problems.  As far as I recall removing nmount
would make us instantly run out of binary mount flags (the main problem
which nmount was written to address).

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