Subject: change in value of MNT_NODEVMTIME to avoid duplication with MNT_EXPUBLIC
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 03/25/1999 00:20:28
we recently added a new option to mount, -o nodevmtime, primarily to
avoid gratuitous spinups of laptop disks just to update the mod time
on /dev/pms0..

Anyhow, the flag bit allocated in mount.h for MNT_NODEVMTIME, was
unfortunately already assigned to MNT_EXPUBLIC (export partition using
WebNFS).

I've just committed a revision to <sys/mount.h> which moves
MNT_NODEVTIME to a different unused bit.

This will produce a temporary incompatibility between new kernels and
old mount_ffs programs; if you're using -o nodevmtime mounts, you'll
need to build and install new includes and a new mount binary to get
nodevmtime functionality back.

					- Bill