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From: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
To: Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>,
	Trent Lloyd <lathiat@bur.st>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] hostfs / current->fsuid
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:35:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406222035.06782.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040622135044.GG25291@patrick.wattle.id.au>

Alle 15:50, martedì 22 giugno 2004, Cameron Patrick ha scritto:
> Hi Trent,
>
> Since no-one else has answered yet, I'll have a shot...
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:44:35AM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> | I was looking into trying to modify hostfs so if UML ran as root it
> | would keep the same permissions
>
> I've no idea about modifying hostfs, but have you looked into using
> NFS instead?  Sure, it's a security nightmare, but it can't be worse
> than running UML as root!  Performance might suck though.

No, on the uml-user list there are some reports NFS is faster than hostfs (not 
actual benchmarks, just feelings): I think that this can be true due to the 
super-optimization of NFS gone in for years; also it's difficult to optimize 
something when you cannot use inline functions for some things (i.e. the 
distinction between userspace and kernelspace files).

Bye
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-21  3:44 [uml-devel] hostfs / current->fsuid Trent Lloyd
2004-06-22 13:50 ` Cameron Patrick
2004-06-22 18:35   ` BlaisorBlade [this message]
2004-06-23  0:48     ` Trent Lloyd
2004-06-23  4:09       ` [uml-devel] " Sven Köhler
2004-06-23  6:02         ` Trent Lloyd

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