On 7 Jun 2000, Nix wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are frequently administrative reasons to say,
> variously,
>
> `everyone unmount this right now, we need to take this disk offline'
> (chance to everyone's namespace)
Yes, but for that you need a working revoke() anyway and with that it
becomes trivial...
> `mount this so that all my daemons can see it' (change to namespace
> unrelated to yours)
>
> `everyone mount this right now, that disk is replaced and /opt/glurk is
> back where it should be'.
>
> I don't think automounters suffice for all of this --- and automounters
> are arguably overkill for this sort of thing, anyway. Is there a way to
> say that, if some processes' namespaces are clone/separated from all the
> others?
In principle, yes. At least if you give root a way to access others' mount
IDs (sorry, long story). BTW, automounter can be done seriously lighter -
search for "mount-traps" on fsdevel.
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