Container-aware filesystems

[Kernel] Posted Apr 3, 2017 20:26 UTC (Mon) by jake

We are getting closer to being able to do unprivileged mounts inside containers, but there are still some pieces that do not work well in that scenario. In particular, the user IDs (and group IDs) that are embedded into filesystem images are problematic for this use case. James Bottomley led a discussion on the problem in a session at the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit.

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