From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 09:09:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B006B16A441 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:09:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DFC43D5F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:01:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE86746B6B; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:38:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:38:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Steve Kargl In-Reply-To: <20060103233458.GA3763@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: <20060111083750.U28748@fledge.watson.org> References: <17338.64976.685459.349707@roam.psg.com> <20060103225401.GA3009@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <17339.1894.74343.72704@roam.psg.com> <20060103233458.GA3763@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Randy Bush , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: mount option is unknown X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:09:01 -0000 On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Steve Kargl wrote: > The first URL notes the same problem with "mount option is unknown". > The second URL points to the CVS repository for sbin/mount/mount.c. It > should have read "rev. 1.77". In particular, > > Revision 1.77 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sat Dec 3 > 01:57:58 2005 UTC (4 weeks, 3 days ago) by rodrigc > Branch: MAIN > Changes since 1.76: +1 -1 lines > Diff to previous 1.76 (colored) > > Simplify parsing of mount options by passing > "rw" option down to kernel, since vfs_donmount() can now parse it. > > "Simplify" is a misspelling of "Break possibility of using older kernels > with newer sbin/mount command". This, of course, makes panic recovery more > difficult. > > I don't recall what the outcome of using a newer kernel with an old > sbin/mount is. I think that, other than some windows of breakage, that does work with a sufficiently recent kernel. The middle bit was a bit more bumpy than I expect was planned by the committer. :-) At least, it's my theory it works, because somehow all my machines got past the bumpy bit (eventually). Robert N M Watson