smbmnt and disabling mtab update

[Dr. David Gilbert]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Urban Widmark wrote:

> If the fs is read-only how do you add a mount to it? I didn't think you
> could, but maybe you are mounting it somewhere else, or maybe I'm just
> wrong.

There is no problem there - you can happily mount a filesystem ontop of a
read only one - after all you are not actually changing the filesystem
that is read only, just the kernels ideas.

Dave

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