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Re: double mounting and other strangeness.

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Subject: Re: double mounting and other strangeness.
From: pac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:50:23 -0600
In-reply-to: <20020128015656.A4541@wotan.suse.de>
References: <20020127113553.A13031@bistro.marx> <27476.1012173537@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20020127173852.A14538@bistro.marx> <20020128015656.A4541@wotan.suse.de>
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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. 

-Phil Carinhas
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