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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 15:33:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount at the same point multiple times
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905191532560.9085-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990518172549.1780A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> I want to make sure what happens when you mount several filesystems at the
> same mount point and what if any of those filesystems are mounted with
> option "union".  It seems to me that a single ".." can keep you going
> upwards through all these mounted filesystems until they are exhausted.  I
> would love to try this out myself, but it is not easy to do so (you have
> to create many filesystems at the same time).

I don't quite understand what you're attempting to accomplish.  You wan to
have multiple mounts at one mountpoint, but you want to select the layer?

Be aware that union mounts may not be perfectly stable.

Doug White                               
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