Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 07:41:33 -0800 From: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving a mount point on FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <200202060725.40189@cyberlifelabs.com>
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Should it be possible to move a mount point when something is mounted to it? The other day I brought somebody in to reorganize the company archives, and when they were done things were a little bit weird. Some directories were showing up as files, while others were accessible only from certain workstations and not others. As it turns out, one of the directories they moved was a mount point for one of the hard drives. Now that drive is cemented to its non-existent mount point and completely inaccessible via NFS (however still accessible via Samba, go figure). The person doing the re-org was on a Win98 box accessing the archives via Samba. My question is, regardless of how someone was "logged in" to the server, why the hell did FreeBSD allow a mount point to be moved if it was in use? Is this a bug or just some strange feature that doesn't make any sense? -- Milo Hyson CyberLife Labs, LLC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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