Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Hi, Al. You've previously stated that you consider the multiple
> mount feature of devfs broken. I agree that there are some races in
> there. However, I'm not clear on whether you're saying that the entire
> concept is broken, or that it can be fixed with appropriate loffcking.
> I've asked this before, but haven't had a response.

Last I saw it was his complaint that you varied what you
showed at different mount points, and that doing that all in 
one dcache tree was fundamentally broken.

> 
> If you feel that it's fundamentally impossible to mount a FS multiple
> times, please explain your reasoning.

At this point it would make sense to just use the generic multiple
mount features in the VFS that Alexander has been putting in.

Eric

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