[Courses] [FS] Lesson 4 - Read & Screenshot

[Meredydd]

Nope, that's normal. The fun bit comes when you try to save the file. 
Depending on how your kernel is feeling today, and how vi handles its 
files, you will get either the expected "read-only filesystem" error, 
or (bizarrely) still be able to see the chunk of filesystem that's 
supposed to be invisible. I've done this (accidentally) before now by 
keeping a shell open, cd'ed into the about-to-be-hidden directory.

I only included that as an interesting side-note, and to try and 
pursuade people to muck around a bit with their filesystems, that's 
all.

Meredydd

On Sunday 16 November 2003 03:25, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I read and understood (I think) Lesson 4.  I mounted a file in
> directory /domMount/ while a file (mountFile) in the same directory
> was being edited by vi.  I didn't notice anything strange.  The
> contents of the directory are hidden, as you said they would be, but
> I didn't see anything else unusual. Am I missing something?  Thanks.
>
> Dom