Bumping a pet bug

[simon]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:37:57 +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:43:06PM +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
>> I think in most cases if devfs mount fails you will likely not end 
>> up
>> with a jail where you can do much... rather many things expect 
>> /dev/null
>> etc.
>>
>> It is possible to just disable the devfs mount completely for a jail 
>> if
>> you want the jail to start up anyway without devfs so I think it 
>> would
>> be OK to simply skip the jail if we cannot mount devfs - and 
>> complain
>> loudly.
>>
>> Anybody have any cases where this would be a problem?
> Just curious. Why devfs mounts can fail ?

If $JAIL/dev doesn't exist or if one has messed up the devfs rulset 
configuration are two reasons I can think of.

-- 
Simon