bin/126324: [patch] rc.d/tmp: Prevent mounting /tmp in second time

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 7 17:30:05 UTC 2008


The following reply was made to PR bin/126324; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Alex Kozlov <spam at rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/126324: [patch] rc.d/tmp: Prevent mounting /tmp in second
 time
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:25:49 +0200

 Alex Kozlov wrote:
 
 > Well, as alternative We can just don't touch /tmp if it already mounted.
 
 This is much better on general grounds.
 
 > This also prevent md device leak at least until bin/114468 will be
 > resolved.
 
 I don't like that PR since it introduces a layering violation, and 
 doesn't come with a justification of why it is necessary.
 
 Utilities that operate on filesystems shouldn't have knowledge about a 
 particular kind of backing store.
 
 Kris


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