[haiku-development] Re: Multiple mounting of file systems
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:03:57 +0200
On 2010-04-08 at 15:06:37 [+0200], Janito Ferreira Filho
<jvffprog@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > I think the VFS should simply prevent that.
>
> then I can assume at the file system implementation that I won't be
> mounting the same file system twice?
For disk-based file systems, yes.
> > For mounting the same file system at different mount points, I would
> > rather
> > introduce a kernel mechanism.
>
> What kind of kernel mechanism? Some kind of "mount link" similar to a
> symbolic link? Thanks,
Yes, something like that. If we want to support such link-mounting also
with stronger restrictions (e.g. read-only instead of read-write), it has
to be a bit more complex than a link, of course, but at any rate it would
be implemented in the VFS.
CU, Ingo
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