mount_nullfs dangerous?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Jan 15 17:31:13 PST 2006


On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:22:05AM +0100, Petr Murmak wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to use mount_nullfs on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE AMD64 to share part of
> filesystem tree between different jails, but i found this in man pages for
> mount_nullfs:
> 
> BUGS
>      THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T
> WORK)
>      AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM.  USE AT YOUR
> OWN
>      RISK.  BEWARE OF DOG.  SLIPPERY WHEN WET.
> 
> Is this still valid? Because there is date May 1, 1995 underneath, so it is
> near 11 years old warning!?

I just removed the warning, BTW.

Kris
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