From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Brad Goodman <brad@bradgoodman.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error in man page for fstab
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:42:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110713084243.GB3486@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAN0OpipdTBHfJGJG0s-YQQ0EbmrLzCkh6PWfHvVAdz78mFE6w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Brad Goodman wrote:
> The fstab man page contains the following text:
>
> >> The third field, (fs_vfstype) ... An entry "none" is useful for bind or move mounts
>
> "none" is interpreted as an actual vfstype, which does not have the
> intended consequences.
The bind mounts are completely independent on FS type. The type does
not make sense here. The recent version of the mount(8) always
overwrites the FS type to "none" for all MS_BIND, MS_MOVE and
MS_PROPAGATION operations.
Karel
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2011-07-12 16:21 Error in man page for fstab Brad Goodman
2011-07-13 8:42 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2011-07-13 15:54 ` Brad Goodman
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