Re: multimounting cdroms ???

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 19:48:05 EST


Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Not yet, but it will go in as soon as the current shitstorm will settle
> down. And with that we couldn't care less for replacement vs. mounting
> atop - automounter would mount at that point anyway and you either get
> the trap replaced with the real tree (the _unmount_ is replaced with
> "mount the trap here and it will replace the tree") or you get the tree
> mounted over trap and umount just exposes the trap again. Both semantics
> are equally usable for direct mounts - no problem with that.
>

Replacing is bad... you want to make sure the trap gets exposed again
when a umount happens, otherwise a manual umount will result in badness.

        -hpa

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