Did you try using -o bind on /proc and /sys as well? Just in case mkfs
uses /sys too, I'm not sure if /proc reacts differently to multiple
mounts or bind neither?

Envoyé de mon appareil mobile.

Jérôme Poulin
Solutions G.A.

On 2011-01-02, at 14:53, J G <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just encountered some odd behavior from mkbtrfs.
> The end goal is to restore a backup to newly created BTRFS partitions while 
> using the latest btrfs-tools.
> Here's the steps to what I did:
> * Booted SystemRescueCD
> * Partitioned the drives (two 750GB drives with 12 partitions each)
> * Created an extra partition on sda as a temporary holding place for the 
> backed up files and so I can update btrfs-tools
> * Formatted/mounted/restored backup files to the temporary partition which I 
> mounted on /mnt/backup
> * mount -t proc none /mnt/backup/proc; mount -o bind /dev /mnt/backup/dev
> * chroot /mnt/backup /bin/bash
> * Updated btrfs-tools to the latest git pull from today 
> (v0.19-35-g1b444cd-dirty).
> * mkbtrfs /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb5 -L root
>
> mkbtrfs returned with:
>
> error checking /dev/sda5 mount status
>
> So I used strace to find out how it was checking for the mount status. Now, 
> I'm no expert here, but I'm confused as to just why it failed. The last thing 
> of note:
>
> lstat("/boot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/boot/sysrcd.dat", 0x7fffb29681e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> directory)
> close(3)                                = 0
> munmap(0x7f11df372000, 4096)            = 0
> write(2, "error checking /dev/sda5 mount s"..., 38error checking /dev/sda5 
> mount status
> ) = 38
>
>
> doesn't explain much. I see that it's checking /proc/mounts to see what's 
> mounted, and then it fails on stating /boot/sysrcd.dat (which doesn't exist 
> in the non-chrooted FS, btw).
>
> To make this even weirder, if I format sda5/sdb5 using the SysRescCD version 
> of mkbtrfs (v0.19) and then format sda5/sdb5 using the chroot version, it 
> works fine.
>
> Any ideas here? I would expect that mkbtrfs would work inside of a chroot 
> without any assistance from the original root.
>
> I have the full strace from the chrooted mkbtrfs failing and from it 
> succeeding, if that's helpful.
>
>
> .:Justin:.
>
>
>
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