From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 10:33:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7651612D for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com ([127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29076; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:34:11 -0700 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Stupid file system tricks. In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:15:24 -0400. From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:34:11 -0700 Message-ID: <29074.940354451@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , yo u wrote: >On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> >> In message 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