From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266463AbUGPFPw (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:15:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266460AbUGPFPv (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:15:51 -0400 Received: from ns0.usq.edu.au ([139.86.2.5]:11015 "EHLO ns0.usq.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266477AbUGPETE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:19:04 -0400 Message-ID: <40F75738.4040601@usq.edu.au> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:19:04 +1000 From: Ron House User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Bug or Feature? Multiply mounted device Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, apologies for posting here, but I need to ask the guys who know for sure. In my fstab, I have two entries for my DOS HD so I can mount it with or without CRLF mangling, as follows (sorry for the line splitting): /dev/hda5 /d vfat rw,suid,dev,async,users,umask=033,uid=1500,gid=1001,conv=b 0 0 /dev/hda5 /dc vfat rw,suid,dev,async,users,umask=033,uid=1500,gid=1001,noauto,conv=a 0 0 I just noticed with my new Linux setup (kernel 2.4.20-8smp - don't know what all that means) that it will let me mount both at once, so I can see the partition as either /d or /dc at the same time. I may be going mad, but I seem to recall with my previous kernel that I couldn't do this. My question: Bug or feature? If I write all sorts of stuff to both logical devices, will it correctly sort it all out on the same physical device, or will I wreck the partition? All help much appreciated! -- Ron House house@usq.edu.au http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house