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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Subject: Re: Using fs views to isolate untrusted processes: I need an assistant architect in the USA for Phase I of a DARPA funded linux kernel project
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:56:18 -0700
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:25:24PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > You can think of this as chroot on steroids.
> 
> Sounds like what you want is pretty much the namespace stuff
> that has been in the kernel since the early 2.4 days.
> 
> No need to replicate VFS functionality inside the filesystem.

When I was at Sun, we talked a lot about this.  Mike, does Sun have any
iterest in this?

We found a lot of shortcomings in implementing various namespace-ish
things.