Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices

2013-03-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Michael J Coss writes: > On 3/18/2013 11:45 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> I will say what I have said elsewhere recently to ensure the idea >> percolates. What can be implemented now without kernel support and >> that is interesting is devtmpfs emulation. That is a tmpfs >> filesystem inside th

Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices

2013-03-19 Thread Michael J Coss
On 3/18/2013 11:45 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I will say what I have said elsewhere recently to ensure the idea > percolates. What can be implemented now without kernel support and > that is interesting is devtmpfs emulation. That is a tmpfs filesystem > inside the container to serve as /de

Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices

2013-03-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Serge Hallyn writes: >> But getting back to the question of policy, does it make sense that the >> way policy is implemented > > Policy is not implemented. > >> is that the all containers receive the events, >> and container configuration determines what uevents should/can be >> processed by t

Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices

2013-03-14 Thread Serge Hallyn
> But getting back to the question of policy, does it make sense that the > way policy is implemented Policy is not implemented. > is that the all containers receive the events, > and container configuration determines what uevents should/can be > processed by that container. Or should it be

Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices

2013-03-13 Thread Michael J Coss
-------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:19:27 -0400 > From: St?phane Graber > Subject: Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices > To: lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <513e4a5f.3010...@ubuntu.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=

Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices

2013-03-13 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Stéphane Graber (stgra...@ubuntu.com): ... > The short and rather usual reply to this is that we know we'll need a > device namespace at some point. Exactly how it'll work is yet unknown Yup. > and it's never been high enough priority that anybody really worked on it. > > However I'm a b

Re: [lxc-devel] Dynamic devices

2013-03-11 Thread Stéphane Graber
On 03/11/2013 04:49 PM, Michael J Coss wrote: > I know that this has probably been hashed over dozens of time but as far > as I can tell udev still does not work properly in containers, neither > OpenVZ nor LXC variants. Unfortunately, I really do have a need for > dynamic devices, specifically so