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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 -
To: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:48:31 -0500 (EST)
Cc: linux-kernel@ton.iguana.be (Ton Hospel), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012301829190.4082-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> from "Alexander Viro" at Dec 30, 2000 06:57:43 PM
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Alexander Viro writes:

> [...] Not allowing multiple mounts of the same
> fs was an artifact of original namei() implementation. At some point
> (late 80s) it had been fixed by Bell Labs folks in their branch. In Linux
> it had been fixed during the last spring. That's it. You were never promised
> that multiple mounts will not work. Moreover, in special cases they did work

Heh. :-)

1. go to http://www.linuxcertification.com/resources/quizzes/
2. take the "System Administration" quiz
3. try answering question 6 correctly
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