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From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:52:13
Message-Id: 525C7594.20701@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink by Patrick McLean
1 Patrick McLean wrote:
2 > This is not true. Bind mounts can be performed on a single file, and
3 > bind mounts are part of mount namespaces. Granted the target file _must_
4 > exist (it could be a dead symlink, or a symlink to /dev/null) before
5 > performing the bind mount.
6
7 Well that's even better then. :-)