Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation | From | Shaya Potter <> | Date | Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:30:48 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:43:39 -0500 (EST) Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu> wrote: > > It's the same thing as modifying a block > > device while a file system is using it. Now, when unionfs gets confused, > > it shouldn't oops, but would one expect ext3 to allow one to modify its > > backing store while its using it? > > There's no such problem with bind mounts. It's surprising to see such a > restriction with union mounts.
the difference is bind mounts are a vfs construct, while unionfs is a file system.
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