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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: please document alternate "bind" syntax in mount(8)
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:52:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F50F60.3010103@ubuntu.com> (raw)

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Forwarded from debian bug #409942:

At the moment, neither mount(8) nor fstab(5) tells us how to do bind
mounts with fstab, or even that it's possible.  We have to *guess* that
doing this in fstab works:
/some/old/dir   /some/new/mountpoint   ???   bind   ???   ???
and it's not clear what is or isn't permitted for ???.

Please consider amending mount(8) so the options listed under -o include
something like this:
        bind     same as --bind (other mount options are silently ignored)
        [...]
	rbind    same as --rbind (other mount options are silently ignored)

Isn't it also time to update the SYNOPSIS in mount(8), now that linux
versions >=2.4.0 will be standard ?  I suggest adding two lines
like this:
         mount { --bind | -o bind } olddir newdir
         mount { --rbind | -o rbind } olddir newdir
or, possibly, just one line
         mount { --bind | --rbind | -o bind | -o rbind } olddir newdir

Thanks for your work.

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-02-07 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-07 16:52 Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-02-17 11:58 ` please document alternate "bind" syntax in mount(8) Karel Zak
2014-02-17 14:45   ` Phillip Susi

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