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| DATE | 2015-06-24 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] something strange a coworker did in fstab
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On 06/24/2015 03:06 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 06/24/2015 01:25 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>> hello every one
>>
>> one of my coworkers did something very odd in fstab it seam to be
>> working but i have this nagging feeling about it and wanted to know if
>> any one can think of a good reason other than the obvious ones not to
>> do it.
>>
>> here is what he did he put entries in fstab to mount /dev/sdb1 on /srv
>> and /db both set to mount on boot
>> it seems to be working the only odd thing seems to be that df only
>> shows the results for the first entry in mtab
>>
>> I seem to remember being told back in the 90's that it was a really
>> bad idea but I cant remember why other than the obvious that its dam
>> confusing and a symlink can serve the same effective function.
>>
>
> That is the file system? You should only be able to double mount with a
> unified
> file system. It won't be good for your symbolic links.
>
> Ruben
>
your going to have a locking and race condition problem unless the FS
supports this.
That would suck for a database.
Ruben
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