Indeed, chroot has some effect. # chroot /var/lib/containers/g2 # mount -t proc proc /proc # cat /proc/mounts proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 # exit One can workaround this by creating a new vfsmount: # mount --bind g2 g3 # chroot g3 # mount -t proc proc /proc # cat /proc/mounts /dev/md4 / xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0