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Date:      Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:17:06 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
To:        Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc:        Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r367038 - head/sbin/mount_nullfs
Message-ID:  <202010251417.09PEH6tE003403@slippy.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPjTQNEq2ukvkNoF6bsymTai52XV1tbu3TxW4rrN4n5hASMFqQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <202010251409.09PE91aS001781@repo.freebsd.org>  <CAPjTQNEq2ukvkNoF6bsymTai52XV1tbu3TxW4rrN4n5hASMFqQ@mail.gmail.com>

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In message <CAPjTQNEq2ukvkNoF6bsymTai52XV1tbu3TxW4rrN4n5hASMFqQ@mail.gmail.c
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, Oliver Pinter writes:
> On Sunday, October 25, 2020, Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Sun Oct 25 14:09:00 2020
> > New Revision: 367038
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367038
> >
> > Log:
> >   Remove the check that prevents creating "loops" from mount_nullfs(8).
> >
> >
> The simple question is: why?

I was about to ask that myself.

The why is usually more important than the how.


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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
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