Confusion with 4.4BSD's nullfs
Confusion with 4.4BSD's nullfs
Posted Mar 13, 2026 17:48 UTC (Fri) by jrtc27 (subscriber, #107748)Parent article: Practical uses for a null filesystem
Although I get why this name makes sense in isolation, this seems unnecessarily confusing to use. 4.4BSD's nullfs (still present in FreeBSD today) is what Linux calls a bind mount, and now that name is being used for a very different thing.