Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Pavel Machek
2004-09-06T16:56:22Z

Hi!

> >Plus mount required root priviledges last time I checked.
>
> bash$ ls -l /bin/mount
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 78504 May 4 23:34 /bin/mount
>
> with proper policies in userspace it allows users to perform mounts.

You want to do exec() each time you enter a archive? I do not think
that is good idea.

> I'm not suggesting that the kernel should be unchanged, but really,
> some of the proposals here, to put a hell of a lot of complexity into
> the kernel it just wet dreams with not much thought of how it affects
> the kernel. What happened to the philosophy of putting complexity and
> policy in userspace? Look at khttpd and tux, they were hacks in the
> kernel to try things out. But what ended up in the kernel is generic
> infrastructure that is useful for a lot more applications than just a
> web server. That is the right way to do things.

Well, generic infrastructure for uservfs would be enough for me... And
it is few lines in kernel.
Pavel