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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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Subject: Re: mount hides underlying files
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jay O'Brien wrote:

> If I mkdir /test and then place files in /test, those files
> are no longer visible when I use /test as a mount point. The
> files become visible again when I unmount the device.
>
> I have read documentation explaining this phenomenon, and I
> would like to review that documentation again. Is it in the
> handbook?

Yes. There is a discussion of this at

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html

Also see the following page.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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