Bug#353943: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Processed: wontfix

[Thomas Hood]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, R.Ramkumar wrote:
>> I guess I am mistaken. The feature request was to augment domount so
>> that it could allow calls for bind mounts from init functions such
>> as mountvirtfs. Correct me if I am wrong, but afaik these don't even
>> need an entry in /etc/fstab (domount at best takes options from
>> there if an entry exists).
> 
> You're correct, I did not understand the report fully.


As for me... I was very confused.  Sorry!


> Thomas, what do you think?  mount will tell us if -t none is not what it
> wants, and it is exactly what it wants for --bind, --move, --make-shared (or
> their alternative fstab-friendly hacks of -obind, -omove...).


Now that I understand it, the patch as provided by R. Ramkumar looks OK to me.
(When domount's first argument is "bind", the function does a bind mount.)

HMH: Can you explain your idea further?  What do you envision domount() doing
when its first argument is "none"?
-- 
Thomas