mount.2: Revise description of MS_REMOUNT | MS_BIND

MS_REMOUNT|MS_BIND affect all per-mount-point
flag.  MS_RDONLY is only special because it,
uniquely, is both a per-mount-point flag *and* a
per-filesystem flag.

So the sections of per-mount-point flags and
MS_REMOUNT can usefully be clarified.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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NeilBrown 2017-05-19 16:55:34 +10:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -288,6 +288,12 @@ are also settable on a per-mount-point basis.
The
.B MS_RELATIME
flag is also settable on a per-mount-point basis.
Since Linux 2.6.16,
.B MS_RDONLY
can be set or cleared on a per-mount-point basis as well as on
the underlying filesystem. The mounted filesystem will only be
writable if neither the filesystem nor the mountpoint are flagged as
read-only.
.\"
.SS Remounting an existing mount
An existing mount may be remounted by specifying
@ -317,6 +323,10 @@ and
arguments should match the values used in the original
.BR mount ()
call, except for those parameters that are being deliberately changed.
Another exception is that
.B MS_BIND
has a different meaning for remount, and it should only be included if
explicitly desired.
The following
.I mountflags
@ -351,17 +361,20 @@ then the remount operation preserves the existing values of these flags
(rather than defaulting to
.BR MS_RELATIME ).
Since Linux 2.6.26, this flag can also be used to make
Since Linux 2.6.26, this flag can be used with
.B MS_BIND
to only modify the per-mount-point flags.
.\" See https://lwn.net/Articles/281157/
an existing bind mount read-only by specifying
This is particularly useful for setting or clearing the "read-only"
flag on a mount point without changing the underlying filesystem.
Specifying
.IR mountflags
as:
MS_REMOUNT | MS_BIND | MS_RDONLY
Note that only the
.BR MS_RDONLY
setting of the bind mount can be changed in this manner.
will make access through this mountpoint read-only, without affecting
other mount points.
.\"
.SS Creating a bind mount
If