per process filesystem namespace

Posted Oct 24, 2002 2:11 UTC (Thu) by brugolsky (guest, #28)
In reply to: per process filesystem namespace by corbet
Parent article: Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Al Viro also snuck it into 2.4.19. :-) It ought to be possible to allow non-root mounts on mount points where the user has write permission. As Jon noted, letting the user mount over, e.g., /etc/passwd, is incompatible with setuid executables.

I'm beginning to think about this because I want to start using Ron Minnich's implementation of 9P (v9fs.sourceforge.net) for various development and admin tasks.

Great article Jon -- once Al Viro adds union-mount, may a thousand
mini filesystems bloom. :-P