From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 11 1: 6:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (fw2.aub.dk [195.24.1.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2437E37B424; Fri, 11 May 2001 01:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4B86Kp81002; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:06:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 10:35:15 PDT." Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:06:20 +0200 Message-ID: <81000.989568380@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matthew Jacob writes: > > >On Thu, 10 May 2001, 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? > >Somewhat wierdly and unobviously, it's init that does the magic. this is basically because it is one line to do it in /sbin/init, but about 100 to do it in the kernel. Blame the poor design of mount(2) (and ask Adrian when he fixes it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message