On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:50 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> It would be nice to fix up mounts so that you didn't need to be root >> and all that crap, and then make it the default, but I doubt Linus >> would let it fly. I get the feeling that private namespaces are viewed >> like chroots: a security feature no one but pros needs. Unfortunately >> not many linux devs seem to care about plan 9, and that has a negative >> impact on how much stuff can happen. Hopefully we'll gradually wear >> them down, or keep a minifork/patchset. > > i think if the linux folks really appreciated what one > could do with namespaces, a number of the > container bolt-on things could be implemented in terms > of namespace.
So much cruft would go right out the window if only it were accessible. > > (then again, i have a feeling the same could be said of > plan 9.) Of course, everything has cruft. But Plan 9 is decent to imitate since it is less crufty. > > it's quite interesting to see how taking the seemingly- > conservative approach at every turn can take you > much further from v7 than even pretty radical breaks > like plan 9. > > - erik > Agreed.
