From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:57:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:57:28 -0400 Received: from fep01.swip.net ([130.244.199.129]:17392 "EHLO fep01-svc.swip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:57:16 -0400 Message-ID: <000901c0d17d$75ab1f40$01000001@pompel> From: "Ola Garstad" To: "Linux-Kernel" Subject: Mounting same device many times/mountpoints. Is this legal? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:57:06 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am running kernel 2.4.3 on RH 7.0 By mistake I mounted the same device two places. Is this legal??? On 2.2.x I got an error if I did this. It guess thus could have destoryed the filesystem if had written to it. bash-2.04# mount [lines removed] /dev/hdc8 on /mnt/1 type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hdc8 on /var/log type reiserfs (rw)