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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: gjohnson@gs.verio.net, current@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: devfs 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:35:26 +0200."
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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?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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