Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030199AbWCTT7Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:59:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030196AbWCTT7I (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:59:08 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:12216 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030186AbWCTT7G (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:59:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:58:58 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jeff Dike cc: Matheus Izvekov , Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Who uses the 'nodev' flag in /proc/filesystems ??? In-Reply-To: <20060320194815.GA6376@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> Message-ID: References: <17436.60328.242450.249552@cse.unsw.edu.au> <17438.13214.307942.212773@cse.unsw.edu.au> <305c16960603200817u3c8e4023nf2621245fdb0ed65@mail.gmail.com> <20060320175633.GA5797@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <305c16960603201122t79dd93c1t484c83acf4ed191b@mail.gmail.com> <20060320194815.GA6376@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 19 >> I see, i didnt know about this. But then pam_mount would need to do >> special treatment for this. I imagine it has been only coded to work >> in the case where there is a device to pass to fsck as a parameter. > >Yeah, I don't doubt it. I was just commenting on the nodev aspect of this. > But hey, when hostfs is nodev-but-fsckable, then looking for /sbin/fsck.XYZ is even better than reading /proc/filesystems... Jan Engelhardt -- | Software Engineer and Linux/Unix Network Administrator - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/