From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Nov 12 5:36:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from csunb0.leeds.ac.uk (csunb0.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.144.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A986A37B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 05:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cslin.leeds.ac.uk (csunc0.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.144.3]) by csunb0.leeds.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA11426; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:33:50 GMT Received: from cslin-gps.comp (cslin-gps [129.11.144.9]) by cslin.leeds.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/) with ESMTP id NAA11410; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:33:59 GMT Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:33:49 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: opentrax@email.com Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/22043: fstab cache annoyance Message-ID: <20001112133349.A4780@comp.leeds.ac.uk> References: <20001111195431.B13079@platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk> <200011121058.CAA04066@spammie.svbug.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011121058.CAA04066@spammie.svbug.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org opentrax@email.com wrote: > Are you stating that I should report the bugs in > mount, fsck, etc. - instead? I've never noticed the bugs you describe. root@platinum:~# mount /floppy mount: /floppy: unknown special file or file system root@platinum:~# cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2e /current ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2f /share ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 magnesium:/usr /nfs/magnesium/usr nfs bg,soft,intr,rw 0 0 /dev/ad2s1a /strontium ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad2s1e /strontium/usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad2s2e /strontium/usr/home/ben/CD/.2 ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad2s2f /strontium/usr/home/ben/CD/.3 ufs rw 2 2 root@platinum:~# mount /floppy mount: /floppy: unknown special file or file system root@platinum:~# echo "/dev/fd0 /floppy ufs rw,noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab root@platinum:~# mount /floppy mount: /floppy: No such file or directory root@platinum:~# mkdir /floppy root@platinum:~# mount /floppy mount: Device not configured Seems to pick up the change to me without a reboot, even if there were errors because the directory /floppy didn't exist anb because this kernel doesn't have a floppy configured in. I'd like some stronger evidence that there is such a problem. -- Ben Smithurst / csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message