On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:52:02AM +1000, Duncan Roe wrote: >On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:34:02AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >Look, directory reparse points are, by and large, symlinks to another, >> >real directory entry. The directory has a primary path, which is its >> >own path under which it has been created, and the reparse point is just >> >a pointer to this directory. If that's not a symlink, what is? >> --- >> What is a mount 'bind' on linux? >> >This extract from the Linux man page explains it: > > The bind mounts. > Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the file > hierarchy somewhere else. The call is > mount --bind olddir newdir > or shortoption > mount -B olddir newdir > or fstab entry is: > /olddir /newdir none bind > > After this call the same contents is accessible in two places.
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