On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:00:13PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:46:22PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > With 2.4 kernels, you can mount the same device, say /dev/hda1, in > > different places at the same time. > > How, er, not useful. Er, no, it's useful as hell. PGI takes advantage of this feature: 1) "live" filesystem mounted from /dev/scd0 during installation for installer executable and other fat stuff too large to fit on a 2.88MB floppy initrd image 2) Debian packages retrieved from /dev/scd0 while chrooted into target system and running apt-get -- G. Branden Robinson | Good judgement comes from Debian GNU/Linux | experience; experience comes from branden@debian.org | bad judgement. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Fred Brooks
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