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From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question 2: /procfs and /kernfs
Date: 30 May 1997 21:30:27 +0200
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In article <6XpYTddJo$B@rimki.toppoint.de>,
	chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) writes:
> And one more question concerning filesystems:  do I need (and for what
> reason and/or application) the NULLFS ?

For remounting a local filesystem to another place. You can e.g. use
that to integrate a part of filesystem into your anonymous FTP area.

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                http://home.pages.de/~tron/