Re: /proc/self/mountinfo versus chroot

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 03/04/2016 04:38 PM, Rick Troth wrote:
> The nice thing about /etc/mtab is that admins, developers, and tinkers
> can manually set it however they feel they need. The flames against it
> on the lists are a little surprising, and rather sad.

Well, the kernel always knows what's mounted where, so it seems that
mtab has always been redundant.

See also: "Yeah, mtab is evil.", from
http://karelzak.blogspot.de/2011/04/bind-mounts-mtab-and-read-only.html

Regarding your case: I don't see /dev/root in df's output inside
a chroot here.

Have a nice day,
Berny