On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 01:52:24 -0400 Bill Bogstad <bogs...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I was reading the article and going "well this seems like a > gratuitous change that I'll have to deal with" > and then I had the WTF moment. It's also going to interfere with Kerberos (or vice-versa). Oh, and never mind that loopback devices are a limited resource: 8 by default. This means on a stock system you can have 8 simultaneous users with "portable" home directories. Or whatever you set the max_loop kernel boot parameter but still finite. Assuming you're not using loop devices for other purposes like mounting image files. The concept is kind of neat: containerizing home directories. In practice there are a lot of technical and usability problems with it (see Apple's FileVault v1 for example) that if Apple's developers couldn't solve them then I don't see Poettering and Red Hat pulling that off. BTW: Apple's solution to FileVault's problems was replacing home directory encryption with full disk encryption. -- Rich Pieri _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
