[conspire] symlinks vs mount --bind [Re: Partitioning revisited briefly]

[Nick Moffitt]

Rick Moen:
> I do worry about recursive commands that will carefully avoid
> traversing symlinks (e.g, rm[1] and mv) but will not hesitate to
> follow bind mounts.  

It gets worse: recursive commands that will carefully avoid traversing
filesystem mounts will cheerfully hop a bind mount if the source and
target directories are on the same volume.  Thus no amount of -x or
--one-file-system will prevent duplication of effort.

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