From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 19:58: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC35159A9 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com ([127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05549 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:58:56 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Stupid file system tricks. From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:58:56 -0700 Message-ID: <5547.940301936@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dumb question #1: Why can't I mount a single physical (ufs) file system in two different (logical) places at once? Dumb question #2: Given that I can't mount a (ufs) filesystem in two different places at once (perhaps because that would create some problem with synchronizing any writes to the filesystem and/or some problems with keeping in-core buffers always synched with what's on disk), why can't I at least mount a given filesystem *READ ONLY* in two different places at once? I tried it both ways, and either way, I just get: mount Device busy P.S. Please don't tell me to just use symlinks. Unless I'm mistaken, those may not work right if they point to a place outside of the specific directory tree that you have jsut chroot'ed to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message