Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Mount API?

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>]

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> 
> Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> writes:
> > Quoting Andy Lutomirski (luto at amacapital.net):
> > > ISTR Eric Biederman mentioned this, but I don't know whether he's
> > > volunteering or whether he'll be there.
> > > 
> > > I could try to write it, but my VFS track record is pretty bad.
> > > On Aug 16, 2014 9:00 PM, "Jan Kara" <jack at suse.cz> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat 16-08-14 13:43:40, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > > Is anyone interested in discussing a new mount API in the unconference
> > > > > track?
> > > > >
> > > > > Think bindmountat, etc.
> > > >   We can discuss however will there be anyone who's going to write the
> > > > code? I know Miklos Szeredi was looking into that but it didn't go anywhere
> > > > AFAIK and he won't be at KS/LinuxCon. And I'm not sure if Al will be at the
> > > > conference..
> > 
> > I'm quite certain Eric will at least be at the venue.  Eric?
> 
> I am here and I will be here all week.
> 
> With respect to bind mounts I was mentioning a patch that someone
> was actively working on a week or two ago to allow at least the read-only
> flag to be specified when a bind mount is created.
> 
> For a whole new clean mount API I don't know.  I do think it would be
> productive for us to get together and talk.  Weather that is at the
> container session on Friday or elswhere I don't know.

If Al isn't there on M-T, then Friday works great for me.

thanks,
-serge