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From: Aristeu Rozanski <aris-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Getting userns enabled in vendor kernels
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:44:02 -0500
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(Replying also to Serge, same argument)
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:52:53AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> The thing that worries me is that turning this off means no-one will
> work on the bugs and one day distros will start to use USER_NS for
> things other than containers.  When that happens, container roots will
> need to use it to bring up distro IaaS instances.

True, but the status we have now is that USER_NS is disabled completely
in Fedora. This approach will split the process in two: enable part of
it, let it soak, solve problems, enable user created namespaces later.

-- 
Aristeu