From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 7:21:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D94E171FC for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 07:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA24846; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:18:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:15:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Stupid file system tricks. In-Reply-To: <16407.940325355@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message 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