>One problem with 1) [mounting into the middle of a mount stack] >is that it breaks the assumption that an 'mount X; >umount X' pair is a no-op.
A very good point. Since unmounts are always from the top of the stack, for symmetry mounts should be there too. Here's another tidbit of information I just verified: umount of "." unmounts from the top of the stack, as opposed to unmounting the stuff you would see if you did "ls .". So this is all consistent. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html