Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:25:02 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | loopback device semantics and UNIX mount(2) philosophy. |
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Hello,
The mount(2) system call will refuse to mount a device if it is already mounted elsewhere. And rightly so. But mounting via loopback (-o loop) allows to mount the same file on different mount points which causes some unexpected results. I understand that this is because a different /dev/loopX is allocated for each instance, but shouldn't the mount fail even on a different /dev/loopX if it refers to a file already attached to some other /dev/loopY to simulate the normal mount(2) semantics?
regards, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796 Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
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