From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 01:52:27 -0500
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: getting out of a bind
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>>I was caught by this when I tried to tar up my home directory and my
>>bin and tmp both sent tar rampaging through the filesystem.  This is
>>even trickier than symbolic links.  

mount -ct /srv/boot /n/boot

then under /n/boot no binds or mounts are active; it's just a tree.
this also avoids trying to read things in /dev or /net.