[FIX] Re: usbdevfs can be mounted multiple times

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:26:24 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I understand that root can do many strange and unsafe things, but mounting
> the same filesystem many times is not allowed for systems other than
> usbdevfs.

Mounting the same fs many times _is_ perfectly legitimate. However, I really
don't like the fact that you've been able to do it several times on the same
mountpoint... Ah. I see - Linus, could you please do the following?

vi drivers/usb/inode.c '-c/DECLARE_FSTYPE/s/0/FS_SINGLE/
x'

I.e. replace the last argument in declaration of usbdevfs with FS_SINGLE -
without that we get a new instance every time.

Cheers,
Al

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