[Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view)

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Fri May 25 07:55:27 PDT 2007


Pavel Emelianov <xemul at openvz.org> writes:
>
> *I* would like to know how you migrate a *part* of a virtual
> server? What happens with pids, IPC ids, network connections?
>
> There are many entities in VS that are not bound to task, but to
> VS and if you migrate only half of them you're risking in loosing
> the integrity of the VS. If you don't care it - why do you need
> namespaces at all?

Well there are other uses for namespaces like providing a context
for private mounts.

That said the concept for migration is not a partial VS.  But
a nested VS.  

Eric




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