Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

Mark Lord wrote:

But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems,
where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working.

I don't see it. You always can make hard link on the underlyingfilesystem. If you need to make it on the bound mount, that is, if youcan't locate the underlying filesystem to make the hard link, you canuse a symbolic link.

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