[arch-releng] updates to releng scripts for new dm_snapshot archiso

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Aug 9 18:07:08 EDT 2011


On 08/09/2011 05:21 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
> <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>  wrote:
>>> i know btrfs can be mounted multiple times but i
>>> dont know about ext* (i put mine on ext4 ... i mean i WAS fixing a
>>> btrfs problem after all :-).  i could possibly reach in thru
>>> /proc/1/cwd but that's a bit hacky ...
>> if you have other partitions just mount it.
>>
>> You can mount the same filesystem on differents locations without bind mounts. This is a VFS feature.
> ah ok -- i knew i would be able to mount other partitions but i was
> curious about the boot partition -- i didn't know the VFS layer was
> handling this (multiple mounts same FS) ... maybe i thought it was a
> btrfs feature as i vaguely remember trying to mount an FS multiple
> times in the past and getting an "already mounted" type of error.
> this must have changed or i was doing something odd and didn't realize
> it ... who knows :-)  thanks, i'll try it out.

"already mounted" if you try to mount with other fs-options.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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