Re: How best to make nfs mounts also available in chroot env?
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:39:22AM -0800, RParr wrote:
> I have installed Debian sid AMD64
> and installed an ia32 chroot per instructions at
> http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960
>
> Now I am trying to restore the chroot bind mounts upon reboot.
>
> I am running into a problem however because some of the bind mounts are to NFS
> mounted "shared" directories.
>
> It appears the NFS mounts are not made until after the local and bind mounts
> are made. This means the bind mounts are made to the empty NFS mount points
> and not the actual NFS mounted directories.
>
> Before I add my own brute-force solution to /etc/init.d I wanted to inquire if
> this is a known problem and/or what the preferred, Debian-way, to fix this
> mount ordering problem.
This is a limitation of bind mounts. I don't think there is any good
solution to it at this time. Mounting the NFS to the chroot, and having
the main system symlink to the chroot seems like a popular solution.
Len Sorensen
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