Re: 2.4.9-ac1/2/3 allows multiple mounts of NFS filesystem on same mountpoint

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
30 Aug 2001 21:12:11 +0200


>>>>> " " == Kevin P Fleming <kevin@labsysgrp.com> writes:

> Accidentally <G> I mounted a filesystem from my server onto my
> workstation twice. Mount gave me no error....

That's right. The 2.4 VFS removed the global restriction on the number
of mounts on a single mountpoint. So?

If people expect this to be an error, then the correct thing is for
the VFS restriction to be reinstated. I see no reason why it should be
the responsibility of the filesystem to check for this sort of
thing. A mountpoint is after all the one place where the VFS is
actually *designed* to override the filesystem.

Cheers,
Trond
-
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/