From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Feb 14 17:51:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA19358 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:51:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from murkwood.gaffaneys.com (dialup8.gaffaneys.com [134.129.252.27]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19341 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:51:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from zach@localhost) by murkwood.gaffaneys.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00574; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:50:42 -0600 (CST) From: Zach Heilig Message-ID: <19970214195042.DN11939@gaffaneys.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:50:42 -0600 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/2738: Kernel crashes when you mount more than one device on a mount point (oops!) References: <199702142206.QAA00532@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from "J Wunsch" on Feb 15, 1997 00:54:02 +0100 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > As Zach Heilig wrote: > > >Synopsis: Kernel crashes when you mount more than one device on a mount point (oops!) > That synopsis is wrong. The kernel perfectly groks mounting more than > one resource on a single mount point. It behaves as expected then: > you can only access the last mounted resource, everything else is > shadowed. Oh foo... I thought I'd done something nasty wrong. > > I mounted devfs on /mnt,... > Ah, therein lies the rub. Devfs is not yet ready for the masses, and > it's an open secret that trying to umount it crashes the system (or > hangs rock-solid). Ok, if it's devfs's fault, and it's already being worked on, go ahead and close the pr. I just didn't like getting a cold boot after trying to umount... -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.