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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:50:15 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Massimo Cetra <mcetra@navynet.it>
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Subject: Re: Mount -o bind strange behaviour
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:33:28PM +0200, Massimo Cetra wrote:
> I have mounted several directories with option -o bind in order to have
> some files avalaible in a chroot.
> 
> Mount -o bind /dir1 /dir2
> 
> Yesterday I noticed that modifying some files in /dir1 didn't cause the
> corresponding files in /dir2 to be modified.
> It happened only for one mountpoint, not for the otner similar
> mountpoints.
> Umount && mount solved the problem.
> 
> The only strange thing is that some hours before i noticed this
> behaviour, machine load reached 150 (apache was overloaded)
> 
> Is it a bug somewhere in the kernel ?

No way to tell without at least the contents of your /proc/mounts before and
after...