Change request for mount_null manpage
Tony Maher
tonymaher at optushome.com.au
Mon May 26 01:36:41 PDT 2003
Hello Andrew,
<this is a followup to list as suggested in private email>
> Andrew J Caines wrote:
>> I'm using mount_null now for some months - and i never had a problem
>> with this.
> Are you using it for rw mounts and if so, then what kind or write volume
> and sizes do you handle?
>
> Usually when this comes up, folks are using null ro mounts and the rare
> (and sometime unintentional) rw mounts do little or no writing. If anyone
> is doing significant volume or size writes, then I've not heared mention
> of it.
I also have been using nullfs (since Jun 30 2001) on a number of systems
(from 4.3-> 4.8) including my main workstation and multiuser servers.
The mounts are rw.
FreeBSD dt.home 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #2: Wed Apr 16 13:00:01 EST 2003
/space/home/staff 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /home/staff
/space/db/mysql 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /db/mysql
/space/db/pgsql 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /db/pgsql
/space/usr/cvs 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /usr/cvs
/space/usr/doc 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /usr/doc
/space/usr/ports 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /usr/ports
/space/usr/src 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /usr/src
/var/obj 1016303 747549 187450 80% /usr/obj
/space/usr/local/office52 4817509 2995755 1436354 68% /usr/local/office52
I have built world many times and compiled ports without problem.
I have an outstanding PR regarding nullfs
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/28566
I have now removed /usr/hack nullfs mount and retested startx.
It all works fine now and I think this PR can now be closed (I'll submit
PR followup after some more testing). Also at the time of this PR I stopped
using nullfs mounts for /home because linux binaries would not work (no PR
for this). I have also retested this and everything works fine.
I think the warning in mount_null man page could be toned down.
As noted in the '5.1-RELEASE TODO' emails nullfs is somewhat broken
in -current.
cheers
--
tonym
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