[ale] interesting phenomenon

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Well, your mount point, /mnt/zip, is a perfectly ordinary directory, the
only thing differentiating it from other directories is the fact that you
mount your zip drive over it.  I think that you may have at one point in
time written the files there without the zip drive mounted, and so the
files are actually residing on the hard disk at /mnt/zip, rather than on
the zip disk you thought you mounted there.

When you mount another zip disk, its contents supersede the contents of
/mnt/zip.

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Lisa Chiang wrote:

> ALE'rs:
> 
> I have noticed a very strange thing with my Linux box (mambear).  I have samba
> (version 2.0+) turned on and am sharing the directory /mnt/zip so the windows
> machine, Micron, can use my zip drive.
> 
> So all I have to do is make sure my network pcmcia card (Netgear FA410) and a
> zip disk is installed and everyone on the local Lan can see it.  (I don't have
> to mount the zip disk.)
> 
> Now here's the funny part.  I decide to remove the zip disk from the drive, but
> all the zip files remain visible and accessible under /mnt/zip.  I can even log
> out then log back in and it's still there.
> 
> I can then put another zip disk in but I can't see its files until I mount it. 
> As soon as I umount it though, the original zip disk files reappear.
> 
> Where are these files being stored - in memory, on the swap partition?
>  
> BTW, mamabear is a Pentium II running Suse 6.0 with kernal 2.0.36.  Thanks.
> 
>  --
> Lisa Chiang
> gt6492d at gatech.campuscwix.net
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> 
> 

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