Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > A more useful thing to fall out of the same hacking is loopback > > mounting -- i.e. the same filesystem mounted multiple places. In > > Linux-land I guess we call it 'mount --bind'. > > > > Peter > > Does this kind

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, John R Lenton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:25:10AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > [Wakko Warner] > > > I have a question, why was this idea even considered? > > > > Al Viro likes Plan9 process-local namespaces. He seems to be trying to > > move Linux in

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > > I found I could mount three partitions on /mnt > > > > > > Yes. New feature, appeared in the 2.4.0test series, or shortly before. > > I have a question, why was this idea even considered? Direct request from HPA. Autofs can win from

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Wakko Warner wrote: I found I could mount three partitions on /mnt Yes. New feature, appeared in the 2.4.0test series, or shortly before. I have a question, why was this idea even considered? Direct request from HPA. Autofs can win from having that

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, John R Lenton wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:25:10AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Wakko Warner] I have a question, why was this idea even considered? Al Viro likes Plan9 process-local namespaces. He seems to be trying to move Linux in that direction.

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: Peter Samuelson wrote: A more useful thing to fall out of the same hacking is loopback mounting -- i.e. the same filesystem mounted multiple places. In Linux-land I guess we call it 'mount --bind'. Peter Does this kind of thing play

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-07 Thread David L. Nicol
Peter Samuelson wrote: > A more useful thing to fall out of the same hacking is loopback > mounting -- i.e. the same filesystem mounted multiple places. In > Linux-land I guess we call it 'mount --bind'. > > Peter Does this kind of thing play nice with nfs and coda, in terms of change

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-07 Thread David L. Nicol
Peter Samuelson wrote: A more useful thing to fall out of the same hacking is loopback mounting -- i.e. the same filesystem mounted multiple places. In Linux-land I guess we call it 'mount --bind'. Peter Does this kind of thing play nice with nfs and coda, in terms of change

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-06 Thread John R Lenton
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:25:10AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Wakko Warner] > > I have a question, why was this idea even considered? > > Al Viro likes Plan9 process-local namespaces. He seems to be trying to > move Linux in that direction. In the past year he has been hacking the >

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-06 Thread Wakko Warner
> > > I found I could mount three partitions on /mnt > > > > Yes. New feature, appeared in the 2.4.0test series, or shortly before. I have a question, why was this idea even considered? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser Geuer
- Original Message - From: "Peter Samuelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 6. February 2001 00:06 Subject: Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir? > > [Michael

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser Geuer
- Original Message - From: "Peter Samuelson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Michael D. Crawford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6. February 2001 00:06 Subject: Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir? [Michael D. Crawford] I found I could mo

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-06 Thread Wakko Warner
I found I could mount three partitions on /mnt Yes. New feature, appeared in the 2.4.0test series, or shortly before. I have a question, why was this idea even considered? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-06 Thread John R Lenton
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:25:10AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Wakko Warner] I have a question, why was this idea even considered? Al Viro likes Plan9 process-local namespaces. He seems to be trying to move Linux in that direction. In the past year he has been hacking the semantics

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael D. Crawford] > I found I could mount three partitions on /mnt Yes. New feature, appeared in the 2.4.0test series, or shortly before. > and they'd all show up as mounted at /mnt in the "mount" command, but > if I unmounted one of them (only tried with the currently visible > one),

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael D. Crawford] I found I could mount three partitions on /mnt Yes. New feature, appeared in the 2.4.0test series, or shortly before. and they'd all show up as mounted at /mnt in the "mount" command, but if I unmounted one of them (only tried with the currently visible one), then it

OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-04 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I was groping around my FAT/NTFS directories from Linux, mounting and unmounting them into /mnt, and was suprised at some point that I got the message "/dev/sda5 already mounted or /mnt busy". (I'm using a SCSI disk, use hda* for IDE). Upon further examination, I found that I'd accidentally

OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-04 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I was groping around my FAT/NTFS directories from Linux, mounting and unmounting them into /mnt, and was suprised at some point that I got the message "/dev/sda5 already mounted or /mnt busy". (I'm using a SCSI disk, use hda* for IDE). Upon further examination, I found that I'd accidentally