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SubjectRe: Overmounting a filesystem
On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, William E. Roadcap wrote:

> On 9 Apr 1996, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Currently it seems Linux does not permit overmounting a filesystem
> > (mounting a filesystem on top of another, on the same path).
>
> Just tried it, and it works:
>
> /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda2 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> /proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/hda3 on /home/eddie type ext2 (rw)
>
>
That's not what he ment (i think anyway), you can mount over existing
files, say you had /mnt, with floppy, cdrom, .... in, you can mount
something on /mnt, but you woulden't be able to see the stuff in orignal
directory. ie:

# ls /mnt
cdrom/ floppy/ ram/
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t ext2
# ls /mnt
file1 dir1/ ln1@
# umount /mnt
# ls /mnt
cdrom/ floppy/ ram/

you get the idea, if you had what's variously been called unionfs, ufs,
and ifs (don't ask why, you don't want to know), you can mount multiple
devices on one mount point, and see 'through' the top fs to fs's below.
I don't how it would handle mounting a fs over a populated directory, but
I think it could be made to handle this either way (ie mounting would
either hide the underlieing files, or allow them to show through).
Bryn
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