Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Eric W. Biederman > <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> So is this. Basically anything that begins by mounting gets a super >>> block and can use the s_user_ns to map from the filesystem view to the >>> kernel view of ids. Apart from greater sophistication in the >>> parametrisation, it sounds like we have all the machinery you need. >>> I'm sure the containers people will consider reasonable patches to >>> change this. >> >> Yes. >> >> And to be clear we have all of that merged now and mostly present and >> hooked up in all filesystems without any shiftfs like changes needed. >> >> To use this with a filesystem a last pass needs to be had to verify that >> the cases where something does not map are handled cleanly. > > Still this does not answer the question how to dynamically > *attach/share* data or read-only volumes as defined by > orchestration/container tools into several containers. Am I missing > something or is the plan to have per superblock mount for each one ? Agreed. That is a related problem and the problem that shiftfs is working to solve. If you only need a single mapping the infrastructure is basically done in the kernel today. If you need multiple mappings we need something more. Eric