On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:10:40PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >According to mount_info::from_registry() (in path.cc), the user mounts
> >are read before the system ones, and therefore appear earlier in the
> >mount table.  I'm pretty sure the mount table is accessed linearly, so
> >the earlier items take precedence, but it would be nice if someone
> >confirmed this.
>
> Why not just "try it"?  Create two mounts, one user and one system.  See
> which takes precedence.

I did try it.  I should have amended the above with "on my system, mounts
work as expected, with user mounts shadowing the system ones".  In fact,
mount actually gives a warning that "system mount point of '/...' will
always be masked by user mount."  But there's got to be some explanation
for the behavior the OP is seeing...
        Igor
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