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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:30:58 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mntopts.h mount.8 mount.c src/sbin/mount_std mount_std.8
Message-ID:  <20041130203058.GA20833@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041130143605.34072F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <41AC489E.7050108@DougBarton.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041130143605.34072F-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:39:52PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Doug Barton wrote:
>=20
> > >>FYI, this commit seems to have broken my line in fstab which has work=
ed for
> > >>a long time:
> > >>
> > >>md                      /tmp    mfs     rw,-s16m,noatime,nosuid,nodev=
 2 0
> > >>
> > >>Is it useful for the nodev option to cause a hard failure here? Note,=
 I'm
> > >>not arguing against either change, just pointing out a side effect.
> > >=20
> > > There's no longer a "nodev" option, please ask Poul-Henning for detai=
ls.  ;)
> >=20
> > Yes, I understand the mechanics, I'm just curious if you think that this
> > should result in a fatal error. It sounds like you think that the answer
> > to that is yes, which if that is the correct answer I'm fine with that.=
=20
>=20
> I think a reasonable alternative would be for use of the nodev option to
> silently no-op in all cases but (perhaps) devfs, since the behavior
> described for nodev is in fact now simply the way the system behaves.
> Maybe the middle ground is to print a warning?
>=20
I reverted a part of mntopts.h commit -- now "nodev" in /etc/fstab
is recognized again.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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