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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Mounting directory problems
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:13:18 +0000
Message-Id: <092120051913.27558.4331B0CE0003E53300006BA622069997350A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> >   mount //srv2/test /srv2_test
> > 
> > You really should create '/srv2_test' first.
> 
> Why?  What difference does it make?

A directory must exist prior to the mount point if you want
readdir() to see it (used by ls, find, ...).  Yes, you can use
mount -f to circumvent the requirement that the directory
already exist, but then you can no longer search the parent
directory for the mount point.

--
Eric Blake



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