On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:43:39 -0500 (EST) Shaya Potter <spotter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's the same thing as modifying a block > > device while a file system is using it. Now, when unionfs gets confused, > > it shouldn't oops, but would one expect ext3 to allow one to modify its > > backing store while its using it? > > There's no such problem with bind mounts. It's surprising to see such a > restriction with union mounts. the difference is bind mounts are a vfs construct, while unionfs is a file system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
