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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:02:31 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        jail@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 222951] Re-starting a jail with mount.devfs mounts devfs multiple times
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--- Comment #2 from Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to VK from comment #0)

> The problem seems to be when the (nopersist) jail is stopped by itself be=
cause all
> the processes in it have exited, so it wasn't explicitly `jail -r`. When =
that=20
> happens, devfs is not unmounted.

For non-persist jails I think this is the expected behavior.
`mount.devfs` is a pseudo-parameter and as per jail(8):
>  There are pseudo-parameters that are not passed to the kernel, but are
>     used by jail to set up the jail environment, often by running specifi=
ed
>     commands when jails are created or removed.


> So next time the jail is started, devfs is mounted again, resulting with =
multiple=20
> mounts of devfs into $JAIL_ROOT/dev:

Maybe we can teach /usr/sbin/jail to check existing mount of devfs(5) before
starting jails.

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