On 12/13/2011 10:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > We're seeing in 8.1-RELEASE that "nodev" is an invalid option for NFS mounts > that causes your system to boot into single-user mode. Is this still the case > in > 9.0-RC2/3 or has the option been re-added? "nodev" was a valid option in > 4.11-RELEASE, not sure why it was removed (and/or made invalid).
Since the advent of devfs, device nodes no longer function anywhere other than a devfs-backed filesystem; so 'nodev' is, in a sense, the default. Try it yourself: ----8<---- amani# dd if=/dev/zero count=1 | hd 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.000046 secs (11126858 bytes/sec) 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000200 amani# mknod zero c 0 26 amani# dd if=./zero count=1 | hd dd: ./zero: Inappropriate ioctl for device amani# ----8<---- -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <cyber...@cyberleo.net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
