Re: Need to remove references to "nodev" mount option

Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I submitted a patch: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115984
> to remove references to the "nodev" mount option.
> 
> "nodev" has been silently ignored since FreeBSD 5, due to the
> introduction of devfs.  In FreeBSD 7, if you try
> "mount -o ndev" or if you have "nodev" in /etc/fstab,
> this will result in a mount failure.
> 

Well, it actually fails on 6-STABLE, too.  I don't know when it changed 
but noticed the change after update & rebuild of my system some time ago.

M.

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