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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Who uses the 'nodev' flag in /proc/filesystems ???
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Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> writes:

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

mount is using it, when no explicit type is specified.  When iterating
over /proc/filesystems it ignores lines with the nodev flag.

Andreas.

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