[1939] in Athena Bugs
Re: Suggested kernel change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 20 20:31:07 1989
From: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 20:30:49 EST
To: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [1935] in bugs
This isn't really a bug report, but I didn't know where else to send
it.
Maybe watchmakers?
It would be convenient to be able to attach the same filesystem more
than once (on differnet mount points, obviously.) For example,
I attach sipb when I log in; sometimes I need to write to, and
when that happens I have to kill all the processes running from there,
detach it, and reattach it with -w. It would be nice to be able to
type:
attach -w -m /mit/sipbwrite sipb
This is not a kernel change by any stretch of the imagination; it is
just an attach change. You can get around it in several ways. This
is the easiest.
% attach -w -m /mit/sipbwrite -e cyrus:/u2/lockers/sipb
Another thing you can do is either hack /etc/named.local so that
sipbwrite is a filesystem that points to the same place and mounts
read-write, or even bring up the issue at the next meeting and see
whether people want a real entry like this.
Also, why do you need it mounted both ways? Why don't you just change
whatever it is you use to attach sipb with to attach -w sipb?
while sipb was already attached on /mit/sipb, for example. I have no
idea if this is trivial or difficult to implement..
Trivial, probably
Barr3y
P.S. I cc'ed this to bugs only so that buglist readers would know
that you had been responded to. Any further correspondence should not
be forwarded to bugs.
