Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet

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From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 6:42 am

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):

Oh I just meant for kernel-space.  So if a container is creating lo,
it will create a device named lo, but the sysfs file will be called
lo_1 or something.


Yes, the above would require that the container either not mount
sysfs, ignore sysfs, or tweak sysfs using
	mount -t tmpfs none /sys/class/net
	mount --bind /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo_1 /sys/class/net/lo
or using fuse.

I'd definately prefer the sysfs tagging approach.  But I'd prefer
the above over never being able to use network namespaces on a
standard distro (with sysfs enabled).

-serge
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sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Benjamin Thery, (Mon Sep 22, 7:31 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Sep 22, 1:24 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Benjamin Thery, (Tue Sep 23, 7:24 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Sep 23, 11:23 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 1:08 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 1:27 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Daniel Lezcano, (Tue Oct 7, 2:01 am)
[PATCH 0/3] minor sysfs tagged directory fixes, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 3:47 am)
[PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Remove lock ordering violation in sysf ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 3:49 am)
[PATCH 2/3] sysfs: Fix and sysfs_mv_dir by using lock_rename., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 3:51 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 4:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Remove lock ordering violation in ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 3:31 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Serge E. Hallyn, (Tue Oct 7, 3:54 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 5:04 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Serge E. Hallyn, (Tue Oct 7, 5:12 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 5:39 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 5:58 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 7, 6:29 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Serge E. Hallyn, (Wed Oct 8, 7:18 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Oct 13, 6:11 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 14, 5:19 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Serge E. Hallyn, (Tue Oct 14, 11:53 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 14, 5:48 pm)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Serge E. Hallyn, (Wed Oct 15, 6:42 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Benjamin Thery, (Wed Oct 15, 6:54 am)
Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet, Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Oct 16, 2:58 pm)