mount/fstab parsing broken

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello Ed,

Thursday, March 1, 2007, 1:30:41 PM, you wrote:

> * 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.

This sounds like a good candidate for an UPDATING entry?

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 Daniel                            mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org