Re: Who uses the 'nodev' flag in /proc/filesystems ???

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Mar 19 2006 - 04:28:07 EST


>
>Hence the question in the subject:
>
> Who uses the 'nodev' flag in /proc/filesystems?
>
>Are there any known users of this flag?
>

pam_mount. If a specific filesystem is nodev, --bind or --move, fsck is
skipped. If you want to change /proc/filesystems, you can do so as long as
you provide an alternative ;) Does not need to be stable, as
/proc/filesystems is only used when a volume is initially mounted in
pam_mount.


Jan Engelhardt
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| Software Engineer and Linux/Unix Network Administrator
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