This should hopefully be a short topic, and it's possible that it'll be settled by the time LSF/MM comes around, but: There's a fair amount of interest from different directions for allowing filesystems with a backing store to be mounted (in the mount-from-scratch sense, not the bind-mount sense) in a user namespace. For example, Seth has patches to allow unprivileged FUSE mounts. There are a few issues here, for example: - What happens to device nodes in those filesystems? - If a FUSE backend is in a user namespace, how should UIDs be translated to/from that backend? - How should LSM security labels be translated? - Should a struct super_block be associated with a user namespace? (Answer: probably, I think.) If so, what should the semantics be? There are also some remapping cases that aren't directly user namespace-related. For example, I'd like to be able to insert removable media and create files owned by uid 0 (or any other uid) without actually being root. --Andy -- 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
