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

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
>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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