Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (fuse)

Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-06-22T14:46:59Z

On 6/21/05, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >
> > An emotional argument again. What's "strange" about it?
>
> Not so emotional argument...
>
> System where users can mount their own filesystems should not be
> called "Unix" any more. It introduces new mechanism, similar to
> ptrace.

I think that's a rather severe statement. I don't see allowing user
mounts damaging standard UNIX system semantics as long as certain
rules are followed. After all, user-mounts and private name spaces
are what the original authors of UNIX went on to develop.

> It restricts root in ways not seen before. How is
> updatedb/locate supposed to work on system with this? How is it going
> to interact with backup tools?
>

I think requiring user-mounts to be in private name spaces solves many
of these issues -- you don't have to worry about system daemons and/or
other users wandering into synthetic file systems.

-eric