Re: Loopback mounting a directory

From: Lew Pitcher (lpitcher_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 11/12/04

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    Rabin Patra wrote:
    > Hi all,
    > Does linux allow loopback mounting of a directory into some other
    > directory?

    Not to my knowledge, but I might be wrong

    > Something like:
    > mount -t loopdir /usr/orig_directory /usr/new_directory
    > would be very useful for sharing files between a chrooted jail and
    > the main system. This would be much faster than say using NFS to
    > export the directory.

    Well, you don't need NFS or a hypothetical directory loopback. With the
    current system, you just need to hardlink the original files to files in the
    chroot directory structure.

    [snip]

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