Mounting same device many times/mountpoints. Is this legal?

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* Mounting same device many times/mountpoints. Is this legal?
@ 2001-04-30 13:57 Ola Garstad
  2001-04-30 15:51 ` Alexander Viro
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ola Garstad @ 2001-04-30 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux-Kernel

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)




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* Re: Mounting same device many times/mountpoints. Is this legal?
  2001-04-30 13:57 Mounting same device many times/mountpoints. Is this legal? Ola Garstad
@ 2001-04-30 15:51 ` Alexander Viro
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Viro @ 2001-04-30 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ola Garstad; +Cc: Linux-Kernel

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ola Garstad wrote:

> I am running kernel 2.4.3 on RH 7.0
> 
> By mistake I mounted the same device two places. Is this legal???

Yes, it is.

> 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.

No (well, aside of the potential filesystem bugs, but their chances of
fs corruption do not depend on number of mountpoints).

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