On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:50:51PM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote: > when I mean bind mounts. No, they are just an aliasing mechanism. Nope, they're not: ghost:/fs# mkdir testro ghost:/fs# mount -o bind,ro /tmp/ /fs/testro/ ghost:/fs# touch testro/q touch: cannot touch `testro/q': Read-only file system ghost:/fs# touch /tmp/q ghost:/fs# ls -l testro/q -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-12-19 08:36 testro/q ghost:/fs# touch testro/q touch: cannot touch `testro/q': Read-only file system
it's just that sometime in the past, someone took a shortcut and made bind-mounts ignore the options, and now it seems that noone can explain to Linus that that was an ommision, and patches fixing that get thrown out because "noone would use that", and "that was linux behaviour for years and noone complained yet". The patches were maintained as seperate 'bind mount extensions/bme' project here: http://www.13thfloor.at/patches/ and now they're part of vserver project, http://linux-vserver.org/ -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
