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Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/34] vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock for reconfiguration [ver #12]
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Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> Davids check will work for bind mounts as well.  It just won't work it
> just won't work for files or subdirectories of some mountpoint.

Bind mounts have to be done with open_tree() and move_mount().  You can't now
do fsmount() on something fspick()'d.

David