From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Feb 23 10:50:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E4A37B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:50:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA50423; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:50:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Pat Lashley Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of nullfs References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 23 Feb 2001 19:50:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: Pat Lashley's message of "Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:38:40 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pat Lashley writes: > The man page in -STABLE for mount_null contains dire warnings about > its lack of support and potential to cause problems. But how > solid/shakey is it really? Is it, in practice, safe to use? The null filesystem type is not yet fully supported (read: it doesn't work) and using it may, in fact, destroy data on your system. Use at your own risk. Beware of dog. Slippery when wet. :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message