Trying to access autofs mountpoints from within the docker container results in "Too many levels of symbolic links"

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Issue

Trying to access autofs mountpoints from within the docker container results in "Too many levels of symbolic links". Autofs mountpoint is bind mounted to the container using --volume option

[root@dockercontainer# ls /autofs/automountkey
ls: cannot open directory XXXX: Too many levels of symbolic links

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Docker
  • autofs

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