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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2007 02:00:14 +0100
From:      Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: mount/fstab parsing broken
Message-ID:  <1987799359.20070302020014@rulez.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20070301123041.GP11232@hoeg.nl>
References:  <1687213025.20070301020540@rulez.sk> <20070228.190000.564104474.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070301110729.GA43178@daemon.rulez.sk> <20070301123041.GP11232@hoeg.nl>

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Hello Ed,

Thursday, March 1, 2007, 1:30:41 PM, you wrote:

> * Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> wrote:
>> > : Also, having this fstab and trying to mount -u -a on a running system,
>> > : causes to produce the following messages in the messages log:
>> > : 
>> > : Mar  1 01:23:13 db2 kernel: mount option <dev> is unknown
>> > 
>> > Have you tried removing the 'nodev' option from /usr and /data?
>> > 
>> 
>> Not yet, but the question is that why it does not work under 7.0-C.
>> I'm running the same setup under 6.2-STABLE and 6.2-PRERELEASE and no
>> problems so far.

> Since FreeBSD 6.0, the creation of device nodes is still possible, but
> they don't work anymore. All device nodes in /dev directly reference the
> device structures in the kernel. Device nodes that reside outside devfs
> are not, making the `nodev' mount option obsolete.

This sounds like a good candidate for an UPDATING entry?

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org




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