Re: [PLUG] loopback mounting fs images

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:10:11PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> I guess I had the impression that the Linux FS layer already had
> ways to let regular users do union and tmpfs mounts, but I haven't
> ever actually done it... was I wrong? Would that be enough, or do
> you need changes to be persistant after umount(8)?

Could be, I might well be confused on this.

This came up in the context of trying to use multicd, which wants to
create and mount a file system image.  I wanted to make it work
without having to be root to run multicd, and I wanted to understand
what issues this presents that make it so complicated.

Thanks all for the detailed comments.

-- 
 Jeff

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