Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756483AbXLSD7k (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:59:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753157AbXLSD7d (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:59:33 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:38418 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751535AbXLSD7c (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:59:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4768973C.8020909@davidnewall.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:29:56 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Al Viro , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ? References: <47684DBD.6030502@rtr.ca> <20071218230016.GF8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20071218231404.GG8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> <47689608.3030503@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <47689608.3030503@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 13 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/