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Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the
mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree
features now.  The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peng Tao authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 24, 2009
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Contents:
1) Overview
2) Features
3) smount command
3) Setting mount states
4) Use-case
5) Detailed semantics
6) Quiz
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Binding a unbindable mount is a invalid operation.


3) smount command
3) Setting mount states

Modern mount(8) command is aware of shared subtree features,
so use it instead of the 'smount' command. [source code removed]
The mount command (util-linux package) can be used to set mount
states:

mount --make-shared mountpoint
mount --make-slave mountpoint
mount --make-private mountpoint
mount --make-unbindable mountpoint


4) Use cases
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mount --rbind / /view/v3
mount --rbind / /view/v4

and if /usr has a versioning filesystem mounted, than that
and if /usr has a versioning filesystem mounted, then that
mount appears at /view/v1/usr, /view/v2/usr, /view/v3/usr and
/view/v4/usr too

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For example:
mount --make-shared /mnt
mount --bin /mnt /tmp
mount --bind /mnt /tmp

The mount at /mnt and that at /tmp are both shared and belong
to the same peer group. Anything mounted or unmounted under
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