Re: confusing mountinfo output when bind-mounting files

[Chris Murphy]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Tycho Andersen
<tycho.andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm seeing some strange behavior when bind mounting files from a btrfs
> subvolume. Consider the output below:
>
> root@criu2:/tmp# mount -o loop /tmp/tester.btrfs /tmp/dir1
> root@criu2:/tmp# touch dir1/file
> root@criu2:/tmp# sudo mount --bind dir1/file dir2/file
> root@criu2:/tmp# grep "/tmp/dir" /proc/self/mountinfo
> 128 24 0:45 / /tmp/dir1 rw,relatime shared:107 - btrfs /dev/loop0 rw,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/
> 129 24 0:45 /file /tmp/dir2/file rw,relatime shared:107 - btrfs /dev/loop0 rw,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/file
> root@criu2:/tmp# btrfs --version
> btrfs-progs v4.4
> root@criu2:/tmp# uname -a
> Linux criu2 4.4.0-8-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 24 20:45:30 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> The issue here is that the "subvol=" mount option for the target of the bind
> mount is "/file" when no such subvolume actually exists. Is this
> intended? It's confusing to say the least, but seems like a bug to me.

Since btrfs mount subvol=<name> is a bind mount behind the scene, I'm
not sure the mount info code distinguishes between bind mounts.

At the moment, this is something of a secret decoder ring where if you
see subvolid=5 first, then anything after that other than / is just
not true (can't be). Hence probably why both subvolid and subvol are
listed for now; you kinda have to parse them both.



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Chris Murphy