Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:19:12 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mntopts.h mount.8 mount.c src/sbin/mount_std mount_std.8 Message-ID: <20041130171911.GR60679@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041130143605.34072F-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <41AC489E.7050108@DougBarton.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041130143605.34072F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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--LfQcPIWFRhGivmDw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:39:52PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Doug Barton wrote: >=20 > > >>FYI, this commit seems to have broken my line in fstab which has work= ed for > > >>a long time: > > >> > > >>md /tmp mfs rw,-s16m,noatime,nosuid,nodev= 2 0 > > >> > > >>Is it useful for the nodev option to cause a hard failure here? Note,= I'm > > >>not arguing against either change, just pointing out a side effect. > > >=20 > > > There's no longer a "nodev" option, please ask Poul-Henning for detai= ls. ;) > >=20 > > Yes, I understand the mechanics, I'm just curious if you think that this > > should result in a fatal error. It sounds like you think that the answer > > to that is yes, which if that is the correct answer I'm fine with that.= =20 >=20 > I think a reasonable alternative would be for use of the nodev option to > silently no-op in all cases but (perhaps) devfs, since the behavior > described for nodev is in fact now simply the way the system behaves. > Maybe the middle ground is to print a warning? If it's intended behaviour then it's probably ok as is for -HEAD. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --LfQcPIWFRhGivmDw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBrKuPocfcwTS3JF8RAopXAJ9Ar889lS4SbLW2atQX5SbfQYi2YQCgq8ch 1HGRw/XCXKbzgz3VbdTot+8= =3JEg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LfQcPIWFRhGivmDw--
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