Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261422AbVDZJUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:20:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261432AbVDZJUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:20:52 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:32175 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261422AbVDZJTk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:19:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:19:21 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: jamie@shareable.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, 7eggert@gmx.de, bulb@ucw.cz, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts Message-ID: <20050426091921.GA29810@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Miklos Szeredi , jamie@shareable.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, 7eggert@gmx.de, bulb@ucw.cz, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <3WWGj-3nm-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <3WWQ9-3uA-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <3WWZG-3AC-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <3X630-2qD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <3X8HA-4IH-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Xagd-5Wb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <1114445923.4480.94.camel@localhost> <20050425191015.GC28294@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 16 On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:16:18AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The most important difference between orinary filesystems and FUSE is > the fact, that the filesystem data/metadata is provided by a userspace > process run with the privileges of the mount "owner" instead of the > kernel, or some remote entity usually running with elevated > privileges. define "mount owner". Right now mount requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN which means fairly privilegued. Having some kind of user mounts would be nice, but needs a fair amount of auditing first. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/