On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2002 15:07 -0800, Kris Urquhart wrote:
> > [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> > A mount of an already mounted ext2 partition corrupts inodes if there have
> > been recent writes without an intervening sync.
>
> This _should_ be handled OK by the kernel simply by not mounting the
> filesystem the second time. If you try and mount it a second time it
> _should_ just do a "bind" mount instead of a real mount, I think.
Which is what actually happens. I suspect that he ends up forgetting to
umount it...
Anyway, try to reproduce it on 2.4.16 or later and give the contents of
/proc/mounts before and after your script.
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