Why am I able to mount multiple NFS or CIFS mounts on the same mount point in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Why am I able to mount multiple NFS mounts on the same mount point in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?
  • Why is this behaviour is permitted at all? mount rejects attempts to mount on the same mountpoint with the same options - but why does it permit to do this with different options?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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