In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:35:26 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Do you have devfs in /etc/fstab ? That is *not* needed, /sbin/init >> will mount devfs on /dev automatically. > >Out of curiosity, what's the motivation behind this decision? Why don't >you allow defvs to be mounted on an arbitrary mount point? You can also mount it other places: mount -t devfs foo /usr/jail/jail1/dev (but the "no new devices" feature is not committed yet, I'm still working on it). The reason for mounting it in /sbin/init is historical and possibly wrong but it does have the benefit that it will DTRT for people. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
