Re: Multiple mounts on same mount points

On 06/01/2010 04:54 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:39:56 +0530
> Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/31/2010 09:25 PM, Steve French wrote:
>>> The existing MultiUserMount feature of cifs (this existing multiuser
>>> support is more limited than what Jeff has proposed for the future)
>>> required multiple mounts in order to pass unique credentials down for
>>> each new uid.
>>
>> Ok, thanks for the clarifying.
>>
> 
> Yes. We should note however that there's no real requirement with the
> old multiuser support that the mounts all be to the same mountpoint. It
> may be more convenient to do it that way in some situations however.
> 

Could you please enlighten me on one or more of those situations? I
could not think of one.

Thanks,


-- 
Suresh Jayaraman