On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Hans Reiser wrote:It differs in that it has masks (view specifications), they scale well, their collection and specification is well automated, and they are attached to the process executable rather than in some centralized place (that is, they are process oriented not object oriented (traditional) and not centralized. Users without root can use them and be trusted with the power to do so.
You can think of this as chroot on steroids.
Sounds like what you want is pretty much the namespace stuff
that has been in the kernel since the early 2.4 days.
No need to replicate VFS functionality inside the filesystem.