Quoting Seth Forshee (seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx): > I wanted to inquire about the current status of shiftfs and the plans > for it moving forward. We'd like to have this functionality available > for use in lxd, and I'm interesetd in helping with development (or > picking up development if it's stalled). > > To start, is anyone still working on shiftfs or similar functionality? I > haven't found it in any git tree on kernel.org, and as far as mailing > list activity the last submission I can find is [1]. Is there anything > newer than this? > > Based on past mailing list discussions, it seems like there was still > debate as to whether this feature should be an overlay filesystem or > something supported at the vfs level. Was this ever resolved? > > Thanks, > Seth > > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487638025.2337.49.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hey Seth, I haven't heard anything in a long time. But if this is going to pick back up, can we come up with a detailed set of goals and requirements? I don't recall whether the last version still worked like this, but I'm still not comfortable with the idea of a system where after a reboot, container-created root-owned files are owned by host root until a path is specially marked. Enforcing that the "source" directory is itself uid-shifted would greatly ease my mind. -serge
