Mount namespaces, mount propagation, and unbindable mounts

cortana — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:33:07 +0000

In one terminal:

$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ cd /tmp/foo
$ touch bar
$ ls

In a second terminal:

# mount --bind /etc /tmp/foo

In the first terminal, you are still able to interact with the underlying /tmp/foo directory and its contents. Only once you cd out of the mount point does they become inaccessible.

I think you are seeing the same behaviour when you try to mount something over the root directory.

Mount namespaces, mount propagation, and unbindable mounts

prabhunath — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 05:04:24 +0000

# mount --bind / /opt/lxc
The above command will work, where the contents of / is visible in /opt/lxc

# mount --bind /opt/lxc /
This will not work. Any reason for this ? Neither this command fails nor the contents of /opt/lxc is visible in /

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Mount namespaces, mount propagation, and unbindable mounts