On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:07:38AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Well, I think it is a useful feature and will be used (maybe optionally) in
> translators. I have some ideas about it. It's the same in Linux, btw. You
> can set mount point on existing directories with real content. Disallowing
> this would inconvenience the users, too.
Specifically this is nice for dealing with things like devfs. If you're
not familiar, devfs is a virutal FS mounted on /dev. If it fails, you
unmount it and get the original contents back as a fallback.
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