On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:41:13AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > You can have multiple mountspoints with the same path, only
> > the topmost one will be seen by userland.
>
> What keeps users from opening files before the upper layer
> filesystems get mounted?
Nothing. Why would we want to do such silly things?
> And how do you handle user-mountable
> media like CD-ROMS?
look at supermount for a stackable filesystem that does nothing but
dealing with such media :) It also shows how the underlying fs
can be mounted without ever exposing it to userspace..
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