Re: [lxc-devel] Detecting if you are running in a container

2011-10-14 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:12:34PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Well, you're going to need to introduce a bunch of new xattrs to > handle the namespacing anyways. > > As I understand it you can use RichACLs to grant all the same > privileges as owner and group, so you can simply map the real > nam

Re: [lxc-devel] Detecting if you are running in a container

2011-10-11 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:59:10PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Lennart Poettering writes: > > > To make a standard distribution run nicely in a Linux container you > > usually have to make quite a number of modifications to it and disable > > certain things from the boot process. Ideally ho

Re: [lxc-devel] Detecting if you are running in a container

2011-10-11 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:05:30PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote: > Yes, it does detract from the unique advantages of using a container. > However, I think the value here is not the effeciency of the initial > system configuration but the fact that it gives users a better place to > start. > > Right