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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:18:00 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ryan Ziegler <ziggy@wopr.inetu.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More questions on DEVFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981116141712.24070C-100000@wopr.inetu.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981113145427.19321G-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, zhihuizhang wrote:
> 
> > 
> > (2) By saying "put devices in there..", I guess it means that the
> > superuser mount the special device at some directory under the new root. 
> > If we set up root directories for several processes, then we may need to
> > mount a certain device used by these processes several times.  DEVFS can
> > be mounted multiple times to achieve this.  However, multiple mounts of
> > a normal file system are NOT allowed.  Am I right? 
> 
> That is correct though I think possibly multiple /proc filesystems
> might be ok..
> 

While 'possible' and 'correct' may mean different things in this case, you
CAN mount multiple procfs filesystems. Mounting the same ufs or swap
partition multiple times will not work. I have never tried devfs.

-Ryan


> 
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for your response.
> > 
> > 
> 
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