[Devel] Re: FS 'namespace'

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:40:59AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Herbert Poetzl (herbert at 13thfloor.at):
> > 
> > just a question: why do we keep the fs (struct_fs)
> > outside of nsproxy?
> 
> Good question.  So we have a mounts namespace, and you
> would consider the per-process fs root to be an fs
> namespace?  Practically, it would mean that chroot
> and pivot_mount would create a new nsproxy, but i guess
> that's not a real problem.
> 
> It might force us to stop our current lazy checks for
> 'current->nsproxy==&init_nsproxy', since the pivot_mount
> in early boot would make that not true.

well, IMHO those are broken anyway, I can imagine 
a number of applications using private namespaces
(the old ones) without running in 'containers'

best,
Herbert

> -serge
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