On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Alessandro Pignotti <alexpigna.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Miklos, > > I hope you are the right person to send this. I've been working over the > last few days to add uid/gid overriding support in overlayfs. I think > the patch is in a fairly good state, but I'm open to suggestions about > how to make it good enough for acceptance in your tree. Please add linux-fsdevel list for overlayfs related posts. > > The main idea is that the uid/gid of overlayfs inodes are overridden if > needed so that the user space sees only the custom uid/gids. Why? > > Currently, even when a custom uid or gid is used, files in the upperdir > are created with the actual fsuid/fsgid of the current user (as usual), > but they are still seen as being owned by the custom uid/gid. I'm not > sure if this is the best approach, another possibility would be to > impersonate the custom uid/gid when creating objects in upperdir. I'm > open to suggestions about the best way to handle this situation. I cannot say without knowing more about what this will be used for. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
