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From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
To: Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>
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Subject: Re: mounting a partition more than once
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Tony Finch wrote:

> Well, in the absence of any comments I hacked around a bit and ended
> up with the following patch (against 3.3-RC), which permits the same
> block device to be mounted read-only more than once. The motivation
> for this is to permit multiple chrooted environments to share the same
> /usr partition.

Wouldn't it be much cleaner to use nullfs? This application is what it's
good at.

Take care,

Bill



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