From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Ram <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:56:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050430085656.GA23513@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050420220429.GB21150@mail.shareable.org>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:04:29PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> The problem is the current mechanism _forces_ the user to have
> different environments on the same box - there's no choice.
>
> Which is, as Al says, just like environment variables.
>
> But not like files - if I create a file called $HOME/foo, I expect
> that I can access it from a different login. I might want to have
> different environments, but that's not the _default_ when dealing with
> files.
>
> The question is whether private user-mounts should, by default, behave
> more like environment variables or more like files.
I think you're a little confused. Files are a global ressource and as
such it makes sense to see them everywhere. But you're not arguing for
making the namespace a global ressource (again), but a per-user one,
which has no precedence.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-30 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-19 22:13 [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-19 22:23 ` Al Viro
2005-04-19 23:53 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-20 3:33 ` Al Viro
2005-04-20 9:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-20 10:27 ` Al Viro
2005-04-20 12:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-20 12:39 ` Al Viro
2005-04-20 16:51 ` Ram
2005-04-20 17:09 ` Al Viro
2005-04-20 17:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <a4e6962a0504201107518416e9@mail.gmail.com>
2005-04-20 18:18 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-20 18:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-20 20:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-20 20:54 ` Al Viro
2005-04-20 22:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-20 21:08 ` Al Viro
2005-04-20 22:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-20 18:00 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-20 18:33 ` Ram
2005-04-20 22:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-30 8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-04-30 15:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-11 9:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-21 7:33 ` Mount bind filehandle (Was: Re: [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call) Jan Hudec
2005-04-21 8:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-21 9:32 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-20 18:57 ` [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call Bryan Henderson
2005-04-20 19:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-21 0:08 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-21 8:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-21 13:33 ` [RFC][patch] mount permissions (was: [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow ...) Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-21 16:57 ` [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call Bryan Henderson
2005-04-20 20:51 ` Al Viro
2005-04-21 0:23 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-21 0:32 ` Al Viro
2005-04-21 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-20 21:09 ` Ram
2005-04-21 0:42 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-21 19:10 ` Ram
2005-04-20 18:25 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-20 12:48 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-20 22:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-21 10:09 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-21 18:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-21 18:52 ` Hiding secrets from root (Was: Re: [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call) Jan Hudec
2005-04-21 20:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-20 13:14 ` [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-20 13:55 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
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