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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?
  • From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] net>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:37:14 -0500
On 13/12/26, Strake wrote:
> On 26/12/2013, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote:
> > does anyone here use bind mounts on a regular basis, and for what?
> 
> Not regular, but I often bind into chroot environments or with HTTP
> servers who won't follow symlinks for security reasons.

Simlarly, I've seen bind mounts used in NFS4 for exporting all
filesystems from the same directory.


	slainte mhath, RGB

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