Re: Multiple mounts on same mount points

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:58:21 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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,
> 
> 

The "convenience" here is pretty trivial. You can essentially just use
this mis-feature to avoid creating a bunch of mountpoints to mount
shares on for each different user by layering them all onto the same one. 

-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>