Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:13:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:13:02 -0500 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:54913 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:12:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:12:42 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro To: "David L. Nicol" cc: Peter Samuelson , Wakko Warner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir? In-Reply-To: <3A81D0E5.B9F3794E@kasey.umkc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > A more useful thing to fall out of the same hacking is loopback > > mounting -- i.e. the same filesystem mounted multiple places. In > > Linux-land I guess we call it 'mount --bind'. > > > > Peter > > Does this kind of thing play nice with nfs and coda, in terms of > change notifications and write-backs? In distributed FS we've got > the same thing mounted multiple places, of course, but not on the > same machine There is no cache coherency problems since we have no copies to keep in sync ;-) Dentry tree is shared by all instances. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/