On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:32:30AM +0000, james harvey wrote: > If /dev/vda is a btrfs volume (not using partitioning) and is mounted to /mnt > > And if /mnt/root is made as a normal directory (not a subdirectory) > > And if an nfs share is mounted to /mnt/root/mnt > > And for some reason "mount /mnt/root /mnt/root --bind" is ran > > ... Should /mnt/root/mnt now be viewable as an empty mountpoint, > hiding the nfs share? Yes, since you used --bind not --rbind. > Right now it does that. Not sure what the expected behavior would be. > Not sure if "mount x x" is ever desired to be allowed, or if it should > refuse to do that. It's a documented and used feature that you can bind mount a directory over itself. HTH, Isaac Dunham -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
