Re: [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Sat Apr 21 2007 - 04:15:58 EST


> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:25:39 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Define a new fs flag FS_SAFE, which denotes, that unprivileged
> > mounting of this filesystem may not constitute a security problem.
> >
> > Since most filesystems haven't been designed with unprivileged
> > mounting in mind, a thorough audit is needed before setting this flag.
>
> Practically speaking, is there any realistic likelihood that any filesystem
> apart from FUSE will ever use this?

V9FS people did express an interest in this. Yeah, I should've CC-ed
them, but forgot. Sorry.

Miklos
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