Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:37:03AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>>>> General direction has been laid out by Al, but it would be good to >>>>> discuss the details. >>>>> >>>>> I plan to work on this after overlayfs is "done". >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Miklos >>>> >>>> Hi, Miklos, >>>> >>>> What's the background on this? Is there a mailing list thread? >>> >>> http://marc.info/?t=138677271200004&r=1&w=2 >>> >>> https://lwn.net/Articles/609376/ >> >> Found one more: >> >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2014-August/001199.html > > > Miklos, > > WRT the suggestion to use a netlink socket that was made in LSF, be aware that > netlink sockets are per network-ns and mounts as you know are per mount-ns. > That may be a problem when setting up a mount from non root network-ns > or maybe not? - I am not sure. Netlink TLV's may be used over an ordinary file descriptor and that seems much more reasonable that netlink if the netlink style of marshalling arguments is desired. Eric
