Re: Two identical copies of an image mounted result in changes to both images if only one is modified

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've observed a rather strange behaviour while trying to mount two
> identical copies of the same image to different mount points.
> Each modification to one image is also performed in the second one.
>
> Example:
> dd if=/dev/sda? of=image1 bs=1M
> cp image1 image2
> mount -o loop image1 m1
> mount -o loop image2 m2
>
> touch m2/hello
> ls -la m1  //will now also include a file calles "hello"

What do you get if you unmount BOTH m1 and m2, and THEN mount m1
again? Is the file still there?

>
> Is this behaviour intentional and known or should I create a bug-report?
> I've deleted quite a bunch of files on my production system because of this...

I'm pretty sure this is a known behavior in btrfs.
http://markmail.org/message/i522sdkrhlxhw757#query:+page:1+mid:ksdi5d4v26eqgxpi+state:results

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