pac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:56:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
Is there any legitimate reason you would want to do this? I dont
want to scream at them if there is a good reason for it. What is the
opinion of the FS developers here?
It's for example useful for chroot. You can mount a single file system
in multiple chroots. There is also the related feature of mount --bind
which allows to do the same thing for directories and files. Again
it is useful for chroots.
Yes, but in my case, i had 2 filesystems mounted on the SAMe mount point.
Here is an inherent ambiguity in which filesystem i am actually write/reading
from.
But mount in unix allows you to mount a filesystem within another
filesystem,
otherwise you could not have nested filesystems. Mounting on top of the
root of a
filesystem is just a special case of this.
Steve
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