My brain hurts. (Messing with mount.)

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Mar 10 19:19:20 UTC 2006


On Thursday 09 March 2006 12:38 pm, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > > No. mount --bind works on files too:
> >
> > That's...
> >
> > Why on _earth_ would they do that?  Is that intentional?  They introduced
> > some weird vfs-level way of doing a cross-mount hardlink?  Except that in
> > this case there must be an existing file, which you hide by doing the
> > bind?
> >
> > I'm not worrying about supporting that right now.  If ever.
>
> If the primary target of busybox is the embedded world, ordinary mounts
> (block devices, maybe loopback) are more than enough IMHO.
> Anything else is expendable.
>
> 	Bernd

If we can be general purpose and still really small, we should.  And I've got 
it for pretty much everything else here, and this isn't hard to add.  Wait 
until I've finished testing (which will have to wait for me to finish and 
submit this initramfs article for Bill, which is due today).

Rob
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