Re: Loopback (dir->dir) mounting (NOT -o loop)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 16:54:55 EST


On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Dave Cinege wrote:

> Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Dave Cinege wrote:
> >
> > > If I'm an idiot and this can already be done somehow please belittle
> > > me, show me the way.
> >
> > mount -t bind old new
>
> # mount -t bind /bin /mnt
> mount: fs type bind not supported by kernel
> # mount -V
> mount: mount-2.9g
>
> Is this new to 2.4, or is my mount just too damn old?

The former and
        a) interface may change (-t is damn ugly way to do that)
        b) don't expect it in 2.2 - no backports possible.

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