Re: 2.4.9: multiply mounting filesystem

[Xavier Bestel]

le lun 17-09-2001 at 09:12 Ulrich Windl a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I mounted a filesystem /dev/sda9 (resierfs) twice (first time 
> as /, second time as /mnt) by mistake. Neither kernel nor mount program 
> complained. I'm very much afraid this could corrupt the filesystem. Or 
> is Linux really smart enough to handle the case?  

It's indeed a new feature of 2.4 kernels.

          Xav