Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> The same can be true for tarfs. I mount it for my purpose, others can
> mount it for theirs. Since the daemon providing the filesystem asways
> runs with the same capabilities as the user who did the mount, I and
> others will always get the permissions that we have on the actual tar
> file.
Fair enough.
> Think of the "no permission for others" as "hiding", not as some
> special permission rule. And if this hiding can be nicely done with
> namespaces, all the better, I'll happily drop this feature at that
> instant.
Indeed, if it can be done with namespaces _and_ mounting on a file
(that file-as-directory concept), _and_ automounting, then you could
cd into your tgz files and others could too :)
-- Jamie
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