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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates
    On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
    > Am 19.11.2015 um 15:37 schrieb Colin Walters:
    > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015, at 02:53 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
    > >
    > >> Erm, I don't want this in the kernel. That's why I've proposed the lklfuse approach.
    > >
    > > I already said this before but just to repeat, since I'm confused:
    > >
    > > How would "lklfuse" be different from http://libguestfs.org/
    > > which we at Red Hat (and a number of other organizations)
    > > use quite widely now for build systems, debugging etc.
    >
    > Currently libguestfs has a rather huge overhead because it
    > boots a full virtual machine and hence a lot of communication
    > is needed.
    > With LKL you can use Linux as Library and link it to fuse.
    > AFAIK Richard added already a LKL backend to libguestfs. :-)

    Right. For the longer story, see:

    https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/linux-kernel-library-backend-for-libguestfs/#content

    Rich.

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