linux-kernel - Re: Bind mount bug?

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:42:26 +0100
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@....physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bind mount bug?

On Sunday 11 November 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >This mounts the bindtest/ tree on test/ _without_ copying the mount
> >points which are found on subtrees. This is necessary to avoid loops
> >in the filesystem (bind mounts are somewhat like hardlinks on
> >directories, just without the headaches).
>
> What you seek is mount --rbind.

Thanks! That works fine with mount from util-linux-ng.

Busybox' mount (at least Debian's admittedly old 1.1.3 version) seems to 
fail to do the recursing. I'll file a BR against busybox in Debian and 
check that again when we have a more current version.
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