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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 10:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: DEVFS
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010510103013.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010510201828.A81476@sunbay.com>

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On 10-May-01 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just installed recent -CURRENT on my PC, and noticed strange things:
> 
> 1)  If I don't have devfs line in /etc/fstab, why DEVFS mount is still
>     happening on /dev, and where?

devfs is mounted by /sbin/init IIRC.

> 2)  Is it valid that multiple DEVFS mounts over /dev are allowed?

Why wouldn't it be?  (Granted, it is a bit _weird_).  You can do the same with
other fs's:

> mount -t procfs
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
> sudo mount /proc
> mount -t procfs
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
> sudo umount /proc

-- 

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