On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:55:37PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Monday 22 June 2015, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:00:51PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > > Forwarding this from debian bug #772419: Run mount /run, and it
> > > mounts a new tmpfs over top of the existing one in /run ( even if
> > > /run isn't listed in /etc/fstab ), hiding the existing files. It
> > > should say that it is already mounted.
> >
> > We usually don't play any policy games in userspace (exception is
> > mount -a). If it's supported by kernel then it's correct behaviour.
> > And IMHO it's really correct behaviour because it creates a *new*
> > filesystem.
>
> Is it really the kernel who does not mount again other filesystems?
Sure, use strace to see more:
> For me tmpfs behavior looks different for no reason:
>
> $ cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 0
> glaukos:/exports/opt/intel /opt/intel nfs defaults 0 0
> proc /tmp/proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /tmp/tmpfs tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
> When everything is mounted already I get:
>
> $ mount /boot
> mount: /dev/sda1 is already mounted or /boot busy
> /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /boot
# strace -e mount mount /boot
mount("/dev/sda2", "/boot", "ext4", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1 EBUSY
(Device or resource busy)
> $ mount /opt/intel/
> mount.nfs: /opt/intel is busy or already mounted
# strace -fe mount mount /mnt/backup
Process 27674 attached
[pid 27674] mount("sr.net.home:/mnt/store/backup", "/mnt/backup",
"nfs", 0, "vers=4.2,addr=192.168.111.1,clie"...) = -1 EPROTONOSUPPORT
(Protocol not supported)
[pid 27674] mount("sr.net.home:/mnt/store/backup", "/mnt/backup",
"nfs", 0, "vers=4.1,addr=192.168.111.1,clie"...) = -1 EPROTONOSUPPORT
(Protocol not supported)
[pid 27674] mount("sr.net.home:/mnt/store/backup", "/mnt/backup",
"nfs", 0, "vers=4.0,addr=192.168.111.1,clie"...) = -1 EBUSY (Device or
resource busy)
> $ mount /tmp/proc/
> mount: proc is already mounted or /tmp/proc busy
> proc is already mounted on /proc
> proc is already mounted on /tmp/proc
strace -e mount mount -t proc none /proc
mount("none", "/proc", "proc", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1 EBUSY (Device or
resource busy)
Karel
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