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| DATE | 2015-06-24 |
| FROM | Paul Robert Marino
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] something strange a coworker did in fstab
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its ext4
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>
> 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
>>
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> 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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