a system and method are provided for mitigating propagation of select mounts in a shared mount tree . one or more mounts in the mount tree may be designated as non - bindable . each non - bindable mount cannot be mirrored to a mount point through a mirror operation of a mount subtree in which the non - bindable mount resides . similarly , each non - bindable mount prevents a submount residing on the non - bindable mount to be mirrored . however , the non - bindable mount and it &# 39 ; s submounts may be mirrored when the entire mount tree is mirrored and attached to a mount point that resides in a no mount tree that acts as a pivot for a new mount tree created through a mirror operation . a mirror of the non - bindable mount maintains the properties of the non - bindable mount .