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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:10:54 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mountd changes
Message-ID:  <199502230010.RAA16145@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> "Re: mountd changes" (Feb 22,  4:00pm)

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> > 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
> 
> Hmmmm.  I guess it just seems wrong to me that you should be able to
> overlay a mountpoint to no good effect, but then again I suppose
> you're also right in that the "layering" paradigm (e.g. last mounted
> fs wins) is at least preserved in the same way that it would be for,
> say, a union mount.

If that is the case, (and we don't have 'multiple' copies of /usr/local
mounted each time), then shouldn't it be up to mount/umount to do the
right thing with respect to df and friends?  If something is already in
the tree already, then why repeat it?  It muddies up the output when we
have 10 version of:
/usr/local/X11R6             127143    64985    55800    54%    /mnt
/usr/local/X11R6             127143    64985    55800    54%    /mnt
/usr/local/X11R6             127143    64985    55800    54%    /mnt
/usr/local/X11R6             127143    64985    55800    54%    /mnt
/usr/local/X11R6             127143    64985    55800    54%    /mnt

in df's output.


Nate



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