From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 22 12:36:20 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA02939 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:36:20 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA02928 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:36:14 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA08329; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:35:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:35:31 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502222035.AA08329@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mountd changes In-Reply-To: <12690.793461732@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <12690.793461732@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > My biggest bug-a-boo is that it lets you mount the same filesystem > more than once! :) And what on earth is wrong with that? All a `mount' does is cover one directory vnode with another; it seems rather pointless to have such restrictions on it. (For that matter, I would like to see the directory restriction lifted, too.) The only reason why UFS doesn't let you mount the same device more than once is because it doesn't have the necessary internal locking and serialization code to make it work. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant