Re: Module idea/thoughts wanted - virtual fs/autofs for chrooted apps

From: Christoph Hellwig (chhellwig@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Apr 02 2000 - 13:47:55 EST


On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:25:32PM -0500, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
>
> directory structure at /usr/local/chroot-base
> user home dirs /home ==> /usr/local/chroot-base/home
>
> insmod remapfs.o
> mount -o realroot=/home -t remapfs none /usr/local/chroot-base/home
>
> run app/whatever chrooted to /usr/local/chroot-base
>
> [ ...]
>
> If anyone has any suggestions/thoughts/etc. I'd appreciate the input.
> Please cc to me, as I'm only watching kerneltraffic.

You loking for Al Viro's mount patches, that were announcend on this list.
And maybe you want namespaces instead of chroot().

Christoph

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