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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:14:53 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        gjohnson@gs.verio.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devfs 
Message-ID:  <5091.967454093@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:06:44 %2B0200." <76354.967453604@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> 

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In message <76354.967453604@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes:
>
>
>On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:35:26 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> Do you have devfs in /etc/fstab ?  That is *not* needed, /sbin/init
>> will mount devfs on /dev automatically.
>
>Out of curiosity, what's the motivation behind this decision?  Why don't
>you allow defvs to be mounted on an arbitrary mount point?

You can also mount it other places:

		mount -t devfs foo /usr/jail/jail1/dev

(but the "no new devices" feature is not committed yet, I'm still
working on it).

The reason for mounting it in /sbin/init is historical and possibly
wrong but it does have the benefit that it will DTRT for people.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.


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