From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Pai Subject: Re: mount behavior question. Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:42:24 -0700 Message-ID: <1122583344.4715.165.camel@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Andrew Morton , Avantika Mathur , janak@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mike@waychison.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:5113 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262184AbVG1Um2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:42:28 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j6SKgRIY188162 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:42:27 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j6SKgVb4174468 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:42:31 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6SKgQoi030950 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:42:27 -0600 To: Bryan Henderson In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:35, Bryan Henderson wrote: > It wouldn't surprise me if someone is depending on mount over ".". But > I'd be surprised if someone is doing it to a directory that's already been > mounted over (such that the stacking behavior is relevant). That seems > really eccentric. Bryan, what would you expect the behavior to be when somebody mounts on a directory what is already mounted over? Do you expect the new mount to obscure the already existing mount or do you expect the already existing mount to obscure the new mount? The issue in the current thread is pretty much revolving around this. RP > > -- > Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center > San Jose CA Filesystems >