Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:15:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stupid file system tricks. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991019091302.20111A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <16407.940325355@monkeys.com>
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910190840550.83661-100000@s8-37-26.student.washingto > n.edu>, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > >> > >>Dumb question #1: > >> > >> Why can't I mount a single physical (ufs) file system in two different > >> (logical) places at once? > > > >Because that is not how the system was programmed. > > Could you prehaps rephrase that answer into simpler and less technical terms? If I remember it correctly, there is a flag or field associated with the mount point. If this flag is set (or the field is not NULL), the kernel refuses to mount it for a second time. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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