Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:43:07 -0500 | From | Eric Van Hensbergen <> | Subject | Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (fuse) |
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On 6/21/05, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > > An emotional argument again. What's "strange" about it? > > Not so emotional argument... > > System where users can mount their own filesystems should not be > called "Unix" any more. It introduces new mechanism, similar to > ptrace.
I think that's a rather severe statement. I don't see allowing user mounts damaging standard UNIX system semantics as long as certain rules are followed. After all, user-mounts and private name spaces are what the original authors of UNIX went on to develop.
> It restricts root in ways not seen before. How is > updatedb/locate supposed to work on system with this? How is it going > to interact with backup tools? >
I think requiring user-mounts to be in private name spaces solves many of these issues -- you don't have to worry about system daemons and/or other users wandering into synthetic file systems.
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