Messages in this thread | | | From | Jan Blunck <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Union mount documentation. | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:43:56 +0000 (UTC) |
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:32:23 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:29:55AM +0000, Jan Blunck wrote: >> Mounting a file system twice is bad in the first place. This should be >> done by using bind mounts and bind a mounted file system into a union. >> After that the normal locking rules apply (and hopefully work ;). > > From the kernel POV mounting a filesystem twice is the same as doing > a bind mount.
Somehow I thought about doing this:
mount /dev/dasda1 /mnt/A mount /dev/dasda1 /mnt/B
... which doesn't result in a bind mount.
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