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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:34:11 -0700
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Stupid file system tricks. 
Message-ID:  <29074.940354451@monkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:15:24 -0400. <Pine.GSO.3.96.991019091302.20111A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> 

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In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.991019091302.20111A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>, yo
u wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> 
>> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910190840550.83661-100000@s8-37-26.student.washin
>gto
>> 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.


No offense, but it seems that you failed to get the joke.

Just saying ``It doesn't do that because it doesn't do that'' (in one form
or another) doesn't really answer the question or why it can't be done.



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