Bug 602573

Summary:	`mount --bind` no longer works with files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Tkac <atkac>
Component:	util-linux-ng	Assignee:	Karel Zak <kzak>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Adam Tkac 2010-06-10 08:33:07 UTC

Description of problem:
`mount --bind` no longer works with files. When need to "mount" a file to another location then target file is created as a block device. In older releases it was created as a file with same perms as source file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q util-linux-ng
util-linux-ng-2.18-0.1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
[root@evileye atkac]# touch file1
[root@evileye atkac]# touch file2
[root@evileye atkac]# mount --bind file1 file2
[root@evileye atkac]# ll file2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Jun 10 10:30 file2

Actual results:
file2 is a block device after `mount --bind`

Expected results:
file2 should be standard file with the same parameters as original file

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2010-06-14 07:39:18 UTC

Fixed by upstream commit bc77da94f715f819c81ee8d1e6623e5ba6d3c373. Thanks!
(fedora will be updated after upgrade to 2.18-rc2)

Comment 2 Adam Tkac 2010-06-14 10:06:17 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Fixed by upstream commit bc77da94f715f819c81ee8d1e6623e5ba6d3c373. Thanks!
> (fedora will be updated after upgrade to 2.18-rc2)    

I tested the patch and it seems everything is fine. Thanks.