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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2001 10:04:33 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: DEVFS 
Message-ID:  <80934.989568273@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 20:18:28 %2B0300." <20010510201828.A81476@sunbay.com> 

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In message <20010510201828.A81476@sunbay.com>, Ruslan Ermilov writes:
>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?

It's done as the first thing in /sbin/init to make sure all device
access is done through DEVFS.

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

yes.

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