Re: read-only bind mounts

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 04:43:11PM +0200, CC.Fan@xxxxxx wrote:
> I was very happy 2.6.24 introduced read only bind mounts, which I really need

 I don't think that Linus's tree already include full set of r/o bind
 mount patches.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/636905

> for the OpenVZ VMs on my Server. Unfortunately "mount -r --bind /x /y" will 
> just do a read-write bind mount.
> /etc/mtab shows 'ro' but /proc/mounts gives rw
> Is this a util-linux-ng issue or an other problem?

 I guess you need to use "-o remount,ro" (in case you have a kernel with all
 r-o-bind-mounts patches).

    Karel

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