From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 22 14:59:53 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA08522 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:59:53 -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 OAA08510 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:59:48 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA08835; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:59:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:59:11 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502222259.AA08835@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mountd changes In-Reply-To: <7928.793493311@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <9502222035.AA08329@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <7928.793493311@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> 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.) > Sigh.. You can't tell me that this makes sense: > $ mount freefall:/a /mnt > $ mount freefall:/a /mnt > $ mount freefall:/a /mnt > $ mount freefall:/a /mnt > $ df > ... > freefall:/a 1668222 569434 1015376 36% /mnt > freefall:/a 1668222 569434 1015376 36% /mnt > freefall:/a 1668222 569434 1015376 36% /mnt > freefall:/a 1668222 569434 1015376 36% /mnt Sure, makes perfect sense. Just as if I said: root@khavrinen$ mount -t null /usr/local/X11R6 /mnt root@khavrinen$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0h 127143 64985 55800 54% /usr/local /usr/local/X11R6 127143 64985 55800 54% /mnt -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