Re: Loopback (dir->dir) mounting (NOT -o loop)

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 20:14:40 EST

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:03:15PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

    But seriously, though... think of:
    
        mount -t bind /home/user /home/user/again
    
    Looking at dev_t won't help you, so your backup will recurse
    indefinitely.

No it won't. /home/user/again is be empty. Try it.

  --cw

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