Mounting same device many times/mountpoints. Is this legal?
I am running kernel 2.4.3 on RH 7.0
By mistake I mounted the same device two places. Is this legal??? On 2.2.x I got an error if I did this.
It guess thus could have destoryed the filesystem if had written to it.
bash-2.04# mount
[lines removed]/dev/hdc8 on /mnt/1 type reiserfs (rw)/dev/hdc8 on /var/log type reiserfs (rw)
Quoted 3 lines · Ola Garstad
I am running kernel 2.4.3 on RH 7.0
By mistake I mounted the same device two places. Is this legal???
Yes, it is.
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On 2.2.x I got an error if I did this.
It guess thus could have destoryed the filesystem if had written to it.
No (well, aside of the potential filesystem bugs, but their chances of fs corruption do not depend on number of mountpoints).