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To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
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Subject: Re: conf/79715: MNT_NODEV should be removed from sys/mount.h 
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In message <200504091620.j39GKMBc071772@freefall.freebsd.org>, Erez Zadok writes:

> > I'm perfectly OK with removing it, but didn't out of fear of what
> > I might break.  I guess this was a loose-loose scenario...
> 
> If the actual NODEV functionallity had been removed from the kernel itself,
> then older binaries, precompiled with whatever NODEV was before, will get
> confused b/c users will expect "nodev" to work, but it will silently not
> work.

Well, it's actually the other way around: NODEV is not an option, it is
always the case for all filesystems except DEVFS.

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