cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mntopts.h mount.8 mount.c src/sbin/mount_std mount_std.8

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:39:52PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> > >>FYI, this commit seems to have broken my line in fstab which has worked for
> > >>a long time:
> > >>
> > >>md                      /tmp    mfs     rw,-s16m,noatime,nosuid,nodev 2 0
> > >>
> > >>Is it useful for the nodev option to cause a hard failure here? Note, I'm
> > >>not arguing against either change, just pointing out a side effect.
> > > 
> > > There's no longer a "nodev" option, please ask Poul-Henning for details.  ;)
> > 
> > Yes, I understand the mechanics, I'm just curious if you think that this
> > should result in a fatal error. It sounds like you think that the answer
> > to that is yes, which if that is the correct answer I'm fine with that. 
> 
> I think a reasonable alternative would be for use of the nodev option to
> silently no-op in all cases but (perhaps) devfs, since the behavior
> described for nodev is in fact now simply the way the system behaves.
> Maybe the middle ground is to print a warning?

If it's intended behaviour then it's probably ok as is for -HEAD.

Ceri
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