On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 12:01:59PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Can you explain under what conditions mounting the same file system > twice will work? > > I guess the kernel is looking up the block device and then sharing the > superblock if the file system is already mounted on this block device? Exactly. > > If I use two loop devices for the same underlying storage it does not > work: Because that's very much the same situation as two different systems trying to mount it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html