How to make a bind mount read-only in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • How to make a bind mount read-only in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
  • Not able to make a bind mount read-only. 
 #mount -o bind,ro /<filesystem> /<mountpoint>
 mount: warning: /<mountpoint> seems to be mounted read-write.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • bind mount

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