Re: can not umount rbind mounts

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:51:32AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 4/13/2011 3:16 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> >  The recursive umount is not implemented, I'd like to add this feature
> >  after [u]mount(8) rewrite to libmount.
> > 
> >  Note that nowhere (especially on systems without regular mtab) is
> >  stored information that the tree was created by recursive bind
> >  mounts. It will be necessary to call umount with a --recursive
> >  command line option.
> 
> I was wondering about that.  Perhaps the kernel needs patched to alias
> rbind to bind internally so that mount can pass rbind instead of bind
> and have it be remembered in /proc/mounts?  Then umount can assume it
> should recursively unmount any bind mounts.

"bind" is not remembered in /proc/mounts (and rbind is MS_BIND|MS_REC). 
 
As I said in the second previous e-mail, remember "bind" in kernel does 
not make sense. 

    Karel

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