Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 19.11.2015 um 15:37 schrieb Colin Walters:
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015, at 02:53 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > 
> >> Erm, I don't want this in the kernel. That's why I've proposed the lklfuse approach.
> > 
> > I already said this before but just to repeat, since I'm confused:
> > 
> > How would "lklfuse" be different from http://libguestfs.org/
> > which we at Red Hat (and a number of other organizations)
> > use quite widely now for build systems, debugging etc.
> 
> Currently libguestfs has a rather huge overhead because it
> boots a full virtual machine and hence a lot of communication
> is needed.
> With LKL you can use Linux as Library and link it to fuse.
> AFAIK Richard added already a LKL backend to libguestfs. :-)

Right.  For the longer story, see:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/linux-kernel-library-backend-for-libguestfs/#content

Rich.

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