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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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