Is unprivileged use possible?
Is unprivileged use possible?
Posted Mar 14, 2026 1:07 UTC (Sat) by alip (subscriber, #170176)Parent article: Practical uses for a null filesystem
Many container managers, including sydbox, offer functionality to mount a scratch tmpfs or ramfs and build the mounts on top of that. Can we now instead use nullfs for this root mount? That'd be a nice plus imho.
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