Re: [Devel] Re: [patch 05/10] add "permit user mounts in new namespace" clone flag

Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-18T15:07:49Z

> > > Don't forget that almost all mount flags are per-superblock. How are you
> > > planning on dealing with the case that one user mounts a filesystem
> > > read-only, while another is trying to mount the same one read-write?
> >
> > Yeah, I forgot, the per-mount read-only patches are not yet in.
> >
> > That doesn't really change my agrument though. _If_ the flag is per
> > mount, then it makes sense to be able to change it on a master and not
> > on a slave. If mount flags are propagated, this is not possible.
>
> Read-only isn't the only issue. On something like NFS, there are flags
> to set the security flavour, turn on/off encryption etc.
>
> If I mount your home directory using no encryption in my namespace, for
> instance, then neither you nor the administrator will be able to turn it
> on afterwards in yours without first unmounting it from mine so that the
> superblock is destroyed.

OK, that's interesting, but I fail to grasp the relevance of this to
unprivileged mounts.

Or are you thinking of unprivileged NFS mounts? Well, think again,
because that involves _much_ more than it seems at first glance.

Miklos