From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: ext2/mount - multiple mounts corrupts inodes
Date: 30 Jan 2002 22:35:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3aokf$1l5$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B9F49C7F90DF6C4B82991BFA8E9D547B1256F4@BUFORD.littlefeet-inc.com> <20020130163730.N763@lynx.adilger.int>
Followup to: <20020130163730.N763@lynx.adilger.int>
By author: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> <stating the obvious>
> Rather than mounting the device to try and see if it is already
> mounted, use /proc/mounts or /etc/mtab or "df" or "mount" output
> instead. Doctor, it hurts when I do this... ;-).
> </stating the obvious>
>
ENOTATOMIC
Might not matter for a human user, but for a daemon like autofs it's
vital that atomicity is preserved.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-31 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-30 23:07 PROBLEM: ext2/mount - multiple mounts corrupts inodes Kris Urquhart
2002-01-30 23:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-31 0:14 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-31 6:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2002-01-31 1:27 Kris Urquhart
2002-01-31 4:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-31 5:05 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-31 17:28 Kris Urquhart
2002-01-31 21:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-31 17:31 Kris Urquhart
2002-01-31 23:46 Kris Urquhart
2002-02-01 1:00 Ishan O. Jayawardena
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