Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/6] Wrapping up the vfs support for unprivileged mounts

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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/6] Wrapping up the vfs support for unprivileged mounts
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 17:46:17 -0400
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:22:56PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Very slowly the work has been progressing to ensure the vfs has the
> necessary support for mounting filesystems without privilege.

What's the thinking behind how system administrators and/or file
systems would configure whether or not a particular file system type
will be allowed to be mounted w/o privilege?

					- Ted

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