mount/fstab parsing broken

Ed Schouten ed at fxq.nl
Thu Mar 1 12:30:42 UTC 2007


* Daniel Gerzo <danger at rulez.sk> wrote:
> > : Also, having this fstab and trying to mount -u -a on a running system,
> > : causes to produce the following messages in the messages log:
> > : 
> > : Mar  1 01:23:13 db2 kernel: mount option <dev> is unknown
> > 
> > Have you tried removing the 'nodev' option from /usr and /data?
> > 
> 
> Not yet, but the question is that why it does not work under 7.0-C.
> I'm running the same setup under 6.2-STABLE and 6.2-PRERELEASE and no
> problems so far.

Since FreeBSD 6.0, the creation of device nodes is still possible, but
they don't work anymore. All device nodes in /dev directly reference the
device structures in the kernel. Device nodes that reside outside devfs
are not, making the `nodev' mount option obsolete.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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