[BusyBox] Joy and Compatibility

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Jul 27 07:31:26 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 26 July 2005 23:56, Jason Schoon wrote:
> Totally lost here.  Are you saying a device and/or mountpoint should
> not be allowed to be mounted multiple times?  That is very much
> allowed and desired in many cases.

He's saying he wants an option "only perform this mount if the target mount 
point isn't the root of some filesystem already".  The default behavior would 
still be to overmount.

Although one thought: should the _new_ one fail, or should the _old_ one be 
umounted instead?

Rob



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