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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:27:40 -0600 (CST)
From:      Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS oddity -- Bug or feature?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001262026090.5232-100000@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <19933.948939356@monkeys.com>

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Wow!  I just tried this also, using the equally obtuse mount
point /usr4.  Did it twice, mount /usr4; mount /usr4.
Showed up twice, just like yours.  Maybe this is a way to
get around the 2GB limit on NFS2?  *grin*

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

>  
>  
>  Excuse my abundant ignorance, but is this a bug or a feature?
>  
>  I just accidently issued a `mount' for a remote NFS volume that, as
>  it turns out, was already mounted.  Now, doing `df' I see:
>  
>  -------------------------------------------------------------
>  Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>  /dev/da0s1a      4185117  2254686  1595622    59%    /
>  procfs                 4        4        0   100%    /proc
>  coredump:/home  13964232 10623202  2614894    80%    /c
>  coredump:/home  13964232 10623202  2614894    80%    /c
>  
>  
>  Gee!  Maybe this is a feature!  Lemme see... I can now access that
>  volume on the local system as either /c or.... ah... /c
>  
>  Color me puzzled.
>  
>  
>  Humm... well at least `umount' seems to do the Right Thing.  Doing
>  `umount /c' once got me back to only having one /c mounted, and
>  doing it again got be back to having zero /c's mounted.
>  
>  I guess that I can't complain about any lack of symmetry here. :-)
>  
>  
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