On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:43:39 -0500 (EST) Shaya Potter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's the same thing as modifying a block
> > device while a file system is using it. Now, when unionfs gets confused,
> > it shouldn't oops, but would one expect ext3 to allow one to modify its
> > backing store while its using it?
>
> There's no such problem with bind mounts. It's surprising to see such a
> restriction with union mounts.
the difference is bind mounts are a vfs construct, while unionfs is a
file system.
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