If I understood Fabian correctly this doesn't happen every time? That's interesting, because I didn't change the mount behavior of *those* directories in the latest updates (though I did some mount optimizations in other areas). Let's try with a different approach then, which was originally supposed to go into the 4.0 release, but I may also pull this into the 3.x series: Instead of mounting everything twice (once into /.snapshots and then bind mounting everything into a temporary directory) just use the temporary mount point. I will do a new transactional-update release in a few minutes. If that also doesn't work I will set up a private mount for separate mount namespaces.