mount --bind and /proc/mounts

Hi,

I'm using a shared root environment and therefore linked /etc/mtab 
to /proc/mounts. In addition I'm using --bind mount to make administration 
easier.

Now I found the following behaviour:
# mount -a 
is mounting all filesystems with bind options in the fstab 
everytime the command "mount -a " is executed. 

That works fine using an /etc/mtab file, but fails for --bind mounts 
using /etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts.

I think this is because /etc/mtab has information about the source directory 
and /proc/mounts shows the device, hosting the filesystem.

e.g.
# mount --bind /tmp/bmount/ /mnt/bmount/
# cat /etc/mtab
(...) /tmp/bmount /mnt/bmount none rw,bind 0 0
# cat /proc/mounts
(...) /dev/root /mnt/bmount ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0

Is there a solution for this ?
 
Thanks,

Mark




-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

---

• Prev by Date: regression: bluetooth oopses because of multiple kobject_add()
• Next by Date: Re: [patch 2.6.20-rc1 1/6] GPIO core
• Previous by thread: regression: bluetooth oopses because of multiple kobject_add()
• Next by thread: Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 6/8] Enable asynchronous wait page and lock page
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]