Re: 2.4.9: multiply mounting filesystem

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 03:40:21 EST


On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> 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?

Yes.

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