Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111191939290.12141-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
By author: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Greetings Gernot,
>
> You can do this with all real and virtual spindles under Linux.
> The reality is total crap that it can happen, but what the hey ...
> No policies in UNIX, ROOT beware.
>
> Sorry, but this report saddens me, issues like these are permitted
> There are no kernel controls to prevent multi mounting to the same point.
>
There are real reasons to overmount a filesystem. It's getting to be
a usability problem, probably because Linux (UNLIKE MOST OTHER UNIXES)
didn't allow it until just recently. This change caused some
problems, including with the automount daemon. I would like to see an
option to mount(8) to allow it, by default disallow by policy.
-hpa
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