diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index b018f1751..1793a495a 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -706,6 +706,14 @@ approach is to close the inotify file descriptor, empty the cache,
 create a new inotify file descriptor,
 and then re-create watches and cache entries
 for the objects to be monitored.)
+
+If a filesystem is mounted on top of a monitored directory,
+no event is generated, and no events are generated
+for objects immediately under the new mount point.
+If the filesystem is subsequently unmounted,
+events will subsequently be generated for the directory and
+the objects it contains.
+.\"
 .SS Dealing with rename() events
 As noted above, the
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