Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:06:24 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ? |
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linux@horizon.com wrote: >> Why does link(2) not support hard-linking across bind mount points >> of the same underlying filesystem ? > > Whenever we get mount -r --bind working properly (which I use to place > copies of necessary shared libraries inside chroot jails while allowing > page cache sharing), this feature would break security. ..
No, that would still function exactly as it does today. The alternate behaviour that is desired for non-chroot purposes would be per-bind-mount, and would require a mount flag to activate.
Cheers
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