On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:48:07AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Hello Al,
> I was looking at adding support to ext2 (and optionally other fses) to
> allow it to set the "filesystem last mounted on" (s_last_mounted) field
> in the on-disk ext2 superblock. One reason for this is that AIX has such
> a feature, and in conjunction with LVM it allows you to move a whole group
> of disks from one system to another, and automatically build /etc/fstab
> from on-disk data as the volume group is imported.
This is not possible (in a sane mannor) with Linux 2.4 as there is now limit
on one mount per fs now (say: you can mount a partition twice).
And btw, people do even use it: I for example have by build partition mounted
once in the usual enviroment and once in a chroot()ed playground.
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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