On May 15, 2006, at 15:59, Rob Landley wrote:
On Monday 15 May 2006 12:17 am, Kyle Moffett wrote:
I can CD into them endlessly, and both "ls -lR" and "find ."
report cycles in the tree, which surprised me that they had a
specific error message for that, actually. Good enough for me. :)
Odd, I'm unable to replicate that behavior here. If I run "ls /
var/sub2/sub2" I don't get any entries. Find and ls -lR have
error messages of that because it can occasionally be triggered
with symlinks and such.
Perhaps I copied it down wrong. I did this in a 2.6.16 UML
instance...
sh-3.00# mount -t tmpfs /tmp /tmp
sh-3.00# cd /tmp
sh-3.00# mkdir woot
sh-3.00# mount --bind woot /var
sh-3.00# cd /var
sh-3.00# mkdir sub
sh-3.00# mount --move /tmp sub
sh-3.00# ls -lR
.:
total 0
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 60 May 15 15:57 sub
./sub:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 May 15 15:57 woot
ls: not listing already-listed directory: ./sub/woot
sh-3.00# find .
.
./sub
find: Filesystem loop detected; `./sub/woot' has the same device
number and
inode as a directory which is 2 levels higher in the filesystem
hierarchy.
./sub/woot
sh-3.00#
Works for me. :)
I get the exact same behavior, but:
sh-3.00# ls -alh /var/sub/woot/sub
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 May 15 18:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 May 15 18:09 ..
sh-3.00#
It does *not* recurse indefinitely here, because the mount tree is
not recursive. A bind mount (Or a --move, which is bind and umount -
l), does not share submounts, so it's impossible to circularly link
them. This is why it's possible to do this:
mount --bind /var /apache1/bin
mount --bind /var /apache2/var
mount --bind /www1 /apache1/var/www
mount --bind /www2 /apache2/var/www
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the
other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
-- C.A.R. Hoare
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