[Bug 791908] Re: Schroot doesn't mount /home submounts in the chroot

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** Changed in: schroot (Debian)
       Status: Won't Fix => New

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Title:
  Schroot doesn't mount /home submounts in the chroot

Status in schroot package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in schroot package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: schroot

  My home dir is mounted as /home/wookey. Within the company this is
  normally a remote dir, but I moved mine to be local to avoid a whole
  host of pain :-)

  Using schroot it mounts /home with bind, rather than rbind, so inside
  the chroot I cannot see my home dir, only the (nearly empty) /home
  that has /home/wookey mounted on it. This was extremely confusing for
  a while as the old /home has a (normally inaccessible) /home/wookey
  containing nothing much from when the machine was originally set up.

  Changing /etc/schroot/mount-defaults from 
  /home           /home           none    rw,bind        0       0
  to
  /home           /home           none    rw,rbind        0       0

  makes it work as expected (my files are visible inside the chroot).

  So, in fact it's easy to fix - schroot is very nicely designed; but it
  took hours to work out what on earth was wrong in the first place.
  Having a sub-dir mounted as a home dir is quite a common configuration
  in institutions and larger companies, so this problem will potentially
  affect a lot of people (who might not even realise that schroot is
  incredibly cool and should automatically makes all their files
  available inside the chroot).

  So, perhaps rbind should be the default, not bind, for /home? Is there
  a good reason not to do this?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: schroot 1.4.17-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jun  2 16:43:42 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
  SourcePackage: schroot
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-23 (9 days ago)

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