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From: "David L. Parsley" <parsley@linuxjedi.org>
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Evil idea of the day: non-directory (even non-existant) mount points and
> > non-directory mounts. So then "mount --bind /etc/foo /dev/bar" works.
> 
> Try it. It _does_ work.

Yeah, mount --bind is cool, I've been using it on one of my projects
today.  But - maybe I'm just not thinking creatively enough - what are
the advantages of mount --bind versus just symlinking?

Also, I tried mount --bind fileone filetwo, and it fails if filetwo
doesn't exist. ('mount point filetwo doesn't exist').  Is that supposed
to work?  (using mount from latest redhat beta)

BTW, pivot_root is nifty, too. ;-)

regards,
	David

-- 
David L. Parsley
Network Administrator
Roanoke College
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