From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:12:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:12:09 -0400 Received: from mons.uio.no ([129.240.130.14]:12436 "EHLO mons.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:12:00 -0400 To: "Kevin P. Fleming" Cc: Subject: Re: 2.4.9-ac1/2/3 allows multiple mounts of NFS filesystem on same mountpoint In-Reply-To: <000901c13179$be7b9ae0$6caaa8c0@kevin> From: Trond Myklebust Date: 30 Aug 2001 21:12:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Kevin P. Fleming"'s message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:32:29 -0700" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Kevin P Fleming writes: > Accidentally I mounted a filesystem from my server onto my > workstation twice. Mount gave me no error.... That's right. The 2.4 VFS removed the global restriction on the number of mounts on a single mountpoint. So? If people expect this to be an error, then the correct thing is for the VFS restriction to be reinstated. I see no reason why it should be the responsibility of the filesystem to check for this sort of thing. A mountpoint is after all the one place where the VFS is actually *designed* to override the filesystem. Cheers, Trond