From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <676c3c4f0607120740j11f76e77vc3dd7e4ae7ad6f90@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:40:49 -0400 From: "Richard Bilson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Which thing was harder for u to grasp relating Plan 9? In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40607120409oa207237x1e944b906a9b3348@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1152644301.12989.35.camel@linux.site> <6e35c0620607112049y49fd2963kb61f6f57c74c03a9@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40607120409oa207237x1e944b906a9b3348@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7d37ee1e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/12/06, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > Going back to my question about the top-10, I remember that it was very > hard to me to understand why > bind / / > was there after I did a > bind -b whatever / > > Now it seems clear and very simple, but it was not at all for me initially. For me, the whole idea of "bind" confused me, because I expected more from it -- I thought it would be more like a BSD-style union mount. It took a while for me to realize that it's actually a much simpler mechanism designed to solve a different problem.