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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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