Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

[David Newall]

Mark Lord wrote:
> But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems,
> where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working.

I don't see it.  You always can make hard link on the underlying 
filesystem.  If you need to make it on the bound mount, that is, if you 
can't locate the underlying filesystem to make the hard link, you can 
use a symbolic link.
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