Funny you should ask about this at this time. I've been using bind mounts in recent weeks a lot like Ed describes.
Been working on a read-only root scheme. Read-only /usr and /opt and things like that are easy. But what if you want to have the root be similarly read-only? (like USS does if so configured) Each Linux would still need some private content. So we mount the private FS and then bind things like /etc from there. Having /etc be a sym-link would work, and I might have done that prior to the availability of bind mounts. But the view users get with bind mounts creates less astonishment. It looks cleaner. It also provides some flexibility, more ways that the common R/O root FS can be used. -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
