Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:56:11 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/20] Mount writer count and read-only bind mounts (v3) |
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 06:50:36PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > umm, what's it all for? > > Mostly for vserver, for now. They allow a filesystem to be r/w, but > have r/o views into it. This is really handy so that every vserver can > use a common install but still allow the administrator to update it.
It's useful for much more then just containers. Even with a plain chroot or just any real multi-user system it's massively useful.
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