chroot, autofs, and bind

[Martin Schmid <schmidm@itp.unibe.ch>]

Hi

We want to set up some amd-64 machines in an i686 environment.
To do so, we would like to follow the approach witch a
chrooted 32-bit environment on the 64-bit machines as discribed
in the amd-64 HowTo .Especially, one needs to have access to the
data in the /home-directory under the chroot also, which can be
solved using a bind-mount.
However, in our situation the /home directory is mounted from
a server using autofs. Bind-mounting an autofs-imported 
filesystem is not a great idea, since this leads inevitably
to kernel crashes (we are using kernel 2.6.12 and automount
4.1.4_beta2). 
At the moment, we have the following workaround:
mounting the autofs-exported /home not into the native 64-bit
environment, but into the 32-bit chroot, instead. The /home in the
64-bit environment is a symlink pointing to /home in the chroot.

Is this workaraound reliable? Are there better solutions?
And no, at the moment we have to use the autofs.

Many thanks in advance

Martin Schmid

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Martin Schmid
schmidm@itp.unibe.ch