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2005 Dec 20
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multiple mount protection
...l machine - there are many
other ways I can go wrong!
Are there any filesystems which natively support protection for multiple
mounts? I can''t quite imagine how such a thing might work... probably
via a ''scratch pad'' where if the filesystem appears to be mounted, the
new mountee would set a flag there and wait for a pre-determined time
(say, 10 seconds), in which time the current mountee (if one existed)
would have reset the flag. If the flag remains set for the
pre-determined time, the new mountee can assume that there was an
unclean unmount (eg crash) and that journal re...