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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 17:28:42 +0100
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To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Filesystem with multiple mount-points
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On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:18:20PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> See "not nice" above. With the proposed option I would like to avoid
> having one file appear at multiple paths. IOW each file would appear in no
> more than 1 place in the tree.

<shrug>

mount <whatever> /tmp/blah
mount --bind /tmp/blah/relative_path /desired_mountpoint
umount -l /tmp/blah

and you've got an exact equivalent of your "mount a subtree".