On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:58:15PM -0400, Jim Keller wrote: > I've been using mount_null for quite some time to mount filesystems > beneath chroot jails, and have had no problems. However, the man page > for mount_null has had a warning (since 1995, apparently) that "IT > DOESN'T WORK", and I know OpenBSD has removed nullfs support as of > version 3.7 (per > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-09/0198.html). The > bug listed in that thread doesn't appear to apply to FreeBSD, as I was > able to successfully null mount /dev and list its contents. So my > questions are: > > 1. is nullfs actively supported on FreeBSD? If so, are there plans to > continue supporting it? Yes and yes. In fact I don't know of any remaining nullfs bugs on FreeBSD 5 and above (although I only stress it on 6 and above), so the warning should just be removed. Kris
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