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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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Is unprivileged use possible?

Posted Mar 14, 2026 1:12 UTC (Sat) by alip (subscriber, #170176) [Link]

Another useful functionality is to mount nullfs over critical paths to mask such as /boot, /proc/sys/kernel etc.


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