TIL that '..' is a hard link to the parent directory's inode (and maybe that hard links were _invented_ specifically to make the Unix filesystem hierarchical??)
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In the mountpoint case, the lookup first traverses into the mounted-over directory, and then looks up the '..' entry in that instead
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