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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: INFO-UNIX Digest  V11#018
Message-ID: <14295@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 1 Nov 90 00:39:40 GMT
References: <24905@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <24905@adm.BRL.MIL> emsca!intevep!emsca!usb!poc@sun.com writes:
>Since the dawn of time, mount has _replaced_ some inode with the root inode
>of the system being mounted. Instead, why not link the new inode on a list
>so they are _both_ available? Then we could mount several disks under '/usr',

Plan 9 has already implemented a similar scheme, with the added advantage
that ordinary (nonprivileged) users may exploit it.