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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remount root RO after the root dentry drops from the namespace
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:52:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091118145212.GA24178@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NAk7D-0005Sl-QI@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:58:31PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > 
> > 	if (flags & MS_BIND)
> > 		err = change_mount_flags(path->mnt, flags);
> > 	else
> > 		err = do_remount_sb(sb, flags, data, 0);
> > 
> 
> Note: the "flags" tested here are supplied from the argument of
> mount(2), and are not flags stored in the mount.  And btw, MS_BIND is
> not stored in the mount at all, there's absolutely no difference
> between a mount created with "--bind" and one without.

 The "flags" argument of mount(2) always contains MS_BIND for bind
 mounts (if you use standard mount(8) command and /etc/mtab) for -o
 remount.
 
    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-18 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-18 11:12 Remount root RO after the root dentry drops from the namespace Daniel Drake
2009-11-18 11:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-11-18 12:38   ` Daniel Drake
2009-11-18 12:58     ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-11-18 14:52       ` Karel Zak [this message]
2009-11-18 15:28         ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-11-18 17:08           ` Karel Zak
2009-11-18 17:38             ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-11-18 15:18       ` Daniel Drake

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