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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 13:56:59 +0300
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Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] new mount(2) userspace api
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> 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.

Amir.