Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/6] Wrapping up the vfs support for unprivileged mounts

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Fri May 25 2018 - 07:56:08 EST


On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:22:56PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
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> Very slowly the work has been progressing to ensure the vfs has the
> necessary support for mounting filesystems without privilege.

What's the thinking behind how system administrators and/or file
systems would configure whether or not a particular file system type
will be allowed to be mounted w/o privilege?

- Ted