Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 May 2016 09:34:56 -0700 | From | Josh Triplett <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/8] VFS:userns: support portable root filesystems |
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On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:26:46PM +0200, Djalal Harouni wrote: > This is version 2 of the VFS:userns support portable root filesystems > RFC. Changes since version 1: > > * Update documentation and remove some ambiguity about the feature. > Based on Josh Triplett comments.
Thanks for the clarifications.
> 3) The existing user namespace interface is the one used to do the > translation from virtual to on-disk mapping.
This makes sense. Even if in the future we had a way to supply an arbitrary VFS UID/GID mapping for a mount, independent of the userns, what you've proposed would still make sense as a shorthand for the common case of using the same mapping for both userns and VFS.
- Josh Triplett
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