Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 06:35 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> I hope the confusion has passed for Trond. My impression was he
>> figured this was per process data so it didn't make sense any where
>> near a filesystem, and the superblock was the last place it should
>> be.
>
> You are still using the wrong abstraction. Data that is not global to
> the entire machine has absolutely _no_ place being put into the
> superblock. It doesn't matter if it is process-specific,
> container-specific or whatever-else-specific, it will still be vetoed.
Sure, I have no problem with only global data, and filesystem specific
data being in a super block. In this case my impression is that the
data is at least arguably filesystem specific. filesystem-specific
data is ok on the super block is it not?
> If your real problem is uid/gid mapping on top of generic filesystems,
> then have you looked into the *BSD solution of using a stackable
> filesystem (i.e. umapfs)?
I haven't and it sounds reasonable to look at. As far as I know BSDs
don't have my specific problem. uid mapping is simply a tool for
dealing with the problem, not the problem itself. A stackable
filesystem is a reasonable alternative to using security keys to
do the mapping.
My real problem is that there is a good case for uids that are not
global to a machine. The discussion is simply how do you cope with
that.
Now I do believe that there is a good case for uids being global to a
filesystem and all I was really talking about was a tag that marked
which parts of the entire system that used the same uids as the
filesystem.
Eric
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