Accessing "mounted-over" subdirectories

[John H. Robinson, IV]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:30:30PM -0800, Karl Cunningham wrote:
> 
> I don't really have a need to do this right now, but I did once and it's
> something that I've wondered about.

no. once you mount a new filesystem, the old one is entirely hidden.

now, this may not always be true. i have heard about writable CDROM
patches, where your writes to the CDROM are kept on a RW filesystem, so
the RW filesyste is on overlay of the CDROM.

and some other filesystem semantics may be able to change that, but at
this point in time: no.    the old is gone until the mount is umounted.

-john