[lxc-users] pre-mount hook namespace
Dietmar Maurer
dietmar at proxmox.com
Sat Nov 14 17:28:08 UTC 2015
> > > 3.
> > > Seth Forshee is working on support for several things that would help you
> > > here - in particular unprivileged users mounting ext4, using loop devices,
> > > and fuse. Doesn't help you right now, but soon it might.
> >
> > Sounds interesting, but not all our storage backends use loop devices
> > (or are ext4 (eg a zfs subvolume...)).
> > Btw. does that imply giving access to a loop device to the container's
> > user?
>
> No, I think it will be a new loop pseudofs akin to devpts. So the
> unpriv user won't be able to use the host's /dev/loop0, rather he'll
> mount a new instances of loopfs which will have loop devices private
> to his namespace.
I only found this patch which is quite old (may 2014):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1712351
Is there some newer code somewhere?
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