On Tue, 24 May 2005, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> 
> > So your in favour of a bind mount behaving in a sense like a chroot.
> > 
> > This I think I can do that but that's not how bind mount behaviour is 
> > defined in mount(8). Hence the discussion.
> > 
> > What I would have trouble doing is maintaining two distinct trees 
> > of mount points which is in line with the definition.
> > 
> > And there's also the question of recursive bind mounts????
> 
> You can always say in the manual: don't do that, or expect the
> unexpected!
> 
> > Oh yes Miklos, we haven't even started talking about submounts, each with 
> > its own map! Sorry, I'm sure you have enough to do already but I thought 
> > you might like to follow the discussion a little further.
> 
> OK.  Why are submounts special?

Simply because they increase the complexity of the issue.
A new mount, a new daemon, new set of possible mounts completly seperate 
from the parent.

Ian

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