Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-31 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:18:21AM +, Ton Hospel wrote: > I was talking about avoiding that the same device gets multiple mounted > at the SAME place, e.g. when doing mount -a, which is often used as a > quick way to get the new entries in /etc/fstab You get EBUSY if you try. - To unsubscri

Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-30 Thread Ton Hospel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Ton Hospel wrote: > >> It should still need a special flag or something, since it's >> impossible for userspace to check this atomically. > > To check _what_? Having the same tree mounted in

Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Ton Hospel wrote: > It should still need a special flag or something, since it's > impossible for userspace to check this atomically. To check _what_? Having the same tree mounted in several places is allowed. End of story. Atomicity of any kind is a non-issue - if you hav

Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-30 Thread Ton Hospel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> 1. multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4 >> >> 2. its still possible to mount devices several times. >>IMHO it shouldnt be poss

Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4 > > 2. its still possible to mount devices several times. >IMHO it shouldnt be possible like 2.2.18 No. The multi-mount thing is a _major_ feature, and the fact that you

PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-23 Thread rkreiner
1. multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4 2. its still possible to mount devices several times. IMHO it shouldnt be possible like 2.2.18 with umount in /proc/mounts is still the real information, in /etc/mtab all corresponding mountpoints are deleted. 3. ker