Re: multiple loop-mounts of the same fs-file

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
30 Mar 1998 15:00:21 +0200


Franck Lesage <lesage@lirskynet.insa-rouen.fr> writes:

|> Hello,
|> I tried to mount an ext2 fs-file with the loop feature under 2.0.33.
|> I typed 'mount -t ext2 -o loop blah /mnt' and 'mount -t ext2 -o loop blah /a'
|> ok, they both appear in /proc/mounts :

IMHO this should be disallowed in the first place (just like mounting a
block device twice). Then the other things are non-issues.

-- 
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