# Bind mounts — Configure bind propagation

> Bind propagation defaults to rprivate for both bind mounts and volumes.

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Bind propagation defaults to rprivate for both bind mounts and volumes. It is only configurable for bind mounts, and only on Linux host machines. Bind propagation is an advanced topic and many users never need to configure it.

Bind propagation refers to whether or not mounts created within a given bind-mount can be propagated to replicas of that mount. Consider a mount point /mnt, which is also mounted on /tmp. The propagation settings control whether a mount on /tmp/a would also be available on /mnt/a. Each propagation setting has a recursive counterpoint. In the case of recursion, consider that /tmp/a is also mounted as /foo. The propagation settings control whether /mnt/a and/or /tmp/a would exist.

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; Mount propagation doesn't work with Docker Desktop.

Before you can set bind propagation on a mount point, the host filesystem needs to already support bind propagation.

For more information about bind propagation, see the Linux kernel documentation for shared subtree.

The following example mounts the target/ directory into the container twice, and the second mount sets both the ro option and the rslave bind propagation option.

The --mount and -v examples have the same result.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker run -d \
  -it \
  --name devtest \
  --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/target,target=/app \
  --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/target,target=/app2,readonly,bind-propagation=rslave \
  nginx:latest
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker run -d \
  -it \
  --name devtest \
  -v "$(pwd)"/target:/app \
  -v "$(pwd)"/target:/app2:ro,rslave \
  nginx:latest
```

Now if you create /app/foo/, /app2/foo/ also exists.

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