config: improve bind mount and propagation doc #1228
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Current documentation talks about bind/rbind and various propagation flags (shared, slave, private, unbindable etc.) as being filesystem- specific options, and refers to mount(8) section describing filesystem-specific options. That is wrong, because bind mounts are a separate class of mounts, not related to file systems. Fix the confusion, and link to sharedsubtree.txt kernel document as it happens to be the best source of information about the topic (not counting the kernel sources). Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
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Current documentation talks about bind/rbind and various propagation flags (shared, slave, private, unbindable etc.) as being filesystem-specific options, and refers to mount(8) section describing filesystem-specific options.
That is wrong, because bind mounts are a separate class of mounts, not related to file systems.
Fix the confusion, and link to sharedsubtree.txt kernel document as it happens to be the best source of information about the topic (not counting the kernel sources).