From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Pai Subject: Re: Mirror a file system on the fly Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:59:01 -0700 Message-ID: <1124395116.5222.396.camel@localhost> References: <3e32b777050818124045dcd1f0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:60878 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932416AbVHRUAk (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:00:40 -0400 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7IJxOwh064880 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:59:30 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j7IJwtJ7512876 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:58:55 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7IJxDJi000858 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:59:13 -0600 To: Dave Schwartz In-Reply-To: <3e32b777050818124045dcd1f0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:40, Dave Schwartz wrote: > Hi list, > > Not too sure if this is the right forum to ask this question but since > my requirement is around linux filesystems, I shall take this liberty > to post my question. > > My requirement is to develop a kernel/user space module to add an > extension to the shell program environment such that this shell forks > a mirror look-alike filesystem of the underlying OS to the programs > run in that particular shell. u seem to be talking about namespaces, if I get you right. there is a flag CLONE_NEWNS to the system call 'clone' which does what u r talking about. RP > > > Was trying to look thru the FAQ and a few list archives to look for > ideas around my requirement. The archives were overwhelming. > > > Any ideas/pointers will be a great help, > Gracias, > decebel > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html