On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Mounting a second devfs instance is undesirable for a number of : reasons, not least that you end up with an extra file system : floating around (although not reachable via the name space). It's : certainly not disastrous though.At work, we have a build server. Our build environment is a chroot'd area that allows us to insultate the products we're building from the host os's files completely. We have to have a devfs entry in each of these chroots. We often see dozens of devfs instances mounted on our 6.2 build boxes w/o ill effect. We've done this as far back as 5.3.
Yes, this is certainly a supported configuration, as it's also used extensively with jail.
Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

