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Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2015 06:55:46 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	'linux-ext4' <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can one file system be R/W mounted multiple times in Linux?

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 12:01:59PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Can you explain under what conditions mounting the same file system
> twice will work?
> 
> I guess the kernel is looking up the block device and then sharing the
> superblock if the file system is already mounted on this block device?

Exactly.

> 
> If I use two loop devices for the same underlying storage it does not
> work:

Because that's very much the same situation as two different systems
trying to mount it.
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