Re: [9fans] Is this weird?

[forsyth@vitanuova.com]

>>Maybe you guys misunderstood the question. Basicall I'm getting a

sorry.  we ought to have answered your question before starting
a subdiscussion.  when you list a union mount, you'll see the contents
of each directory in turn.  in particular, if you unite a directory with itself,
however many times, you'll see the files in each instance (ie, names repeated).
try something like

	mkdir m
	>m/x
	bind -b m m
	ls m
	bind -b m m
	ls m
	...

in your case, as rob suggested, you've most likely done something that
caused /net to be bound to itself.  i'd guess that, not #I alone
being bound twice, because ether0 (#l) is there as well.

often when the same names appear, they really do come from different
directories in the union.  ls -q prints Qid data that helps to distinguish
them, hence rob's suggestion of ls -lq.  in your case, duplicate names
should have the same qids (because they are the same file).
another helpful option is -n, which tells ls not to sort the result, so names
appear in the order they are seen in the union, allowing you to tell which
duplicate is uppermost (and thus selected by the system in a search).