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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:32:13 -0500
From:      Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mount_null evil ?
Message-ID:  <20030310213213.GE87518@hal9000.halplant.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030310132402.GA93784@LF.net>
References:  <20030310132402.GA93784@LF.net>

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Marc,

> I?m currently developing a jail-management solution - I use a 
> readonly mount_null for central software-management of the jails.
> The manpage was written May 1, 1995 - is using this tool still dangerous 

I have used it for read-only mounts since way back and have not have any
problems, including brief periods of high I/O.

I'd have reservations allowing unique data on a read-write mount, however
I just did a few quick and simple tests of reads and writes on a rw null
mount on my 4.8-RC box with no apparent problem.


-Andrew-
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