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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:54:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tuning to run large (1000+) numbers of null_mounts
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0601181452360.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060118191831.GA47747@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> >      RISK.  BEWARE OF DOG.  SLIPPERY WHEN WET.
> > 
> > So, based on this, all of my null_mounts are actually mounted read-only.
> 
> As others have said, this is no longer applicable to FreeBSD 6.0, and
> it's been removed from HEAD.


hmmm...the cut and paste of that loud warning was from a 6.0-RELEASE man
page ... if I need to be CURRENT to get the updated man page, do I also
need to be CURRENT to get the safe null_mount code itself ?

Or is 6.0-RELEASE safe ? (re: null_mount)

Thanks a lot.




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