Re: 2.4.0test1-ac4 - mount problem

From: Olivier Galibert (galibert@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 16:50:05 EST


On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:46:13AM -0500, Chad Schwartz wrote:
> You can allow a person to mount the same fs in unlimited places. thats
> just fine.
>
> But do *NOT* allow a mount on top of an already mounted filesystem.

Why not?

Since there does not seem to be security issues in there, it's a
matter of policy. Policy belongs to userspace. So do the test in the
userspace mount, not in the kernel.

  OG.

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