Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

Richard Weinberger
2015-11-19T07:53:32Z

Am 19.11.2015 um 08:47 schrieb James Morris:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:05:12AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, the host admin. I'm not talking about trusting the admin inside the
>>>> container at all.
>>>
>>> Then why not have the same host admin just plain mount it when setting the
>>> container up and be done with that? From the host namespace, before spawning
>>> the docker instance or whatever framework you are using. IDGI...
>>
>> Because hosting companies sell containers as "full virtual machines"
>> and customers expect to be able mount stuff like disk images they upload.
>
> I don't think this is a valid reason for merging functionality into the
> kernel.

Erm, I don't want this in the kernel. That's why I've proposed the lklfuse approach.

Thanks,
//richard