From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 22 15:11:01 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA09250 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:11:01 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA09244; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:10:53 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA15850; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:14:10 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:14:10 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199502222314.QAA15850@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Garrett Wollman "Re: mountd changes" (Feb 22, 5:59pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Garrett Wollman , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: mountd changes Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 No, it *doesn't* make sense at all. Having multiple mounts is confusing at best, and down-right dangerous at other times. (Single-user mode comes to mind) Nate