linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Union mount documentation.

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:43:56 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Union mount documentation.

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:32:23 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:29:55AM +0000, Jan Blunck wrote:
>> Mounting a file system twice is bad in the first place. This should be
>> done by using bind mounts and bind a mounted file system into a union.
>> After that the normal locking rules apply (and hopefully work ;).
> 
> From the kernel POV mounting a filesystem twice is the same as doing
> a bind mount.

Somehow I thought about doing this:

 mount /dev/dasda1 /mnt/A
 mount /dev/dasda1 /mnt/B

... which doesn't result in a bind mount.

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