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Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem
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John McCabe-Dansted |
Subject: |
Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:17:43 +0800 |
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Thomas Leonard <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm trying to use Plash to implement an overlay (like Klik). Some questions:
>
> Some programs don't like running with a different user ID. e.g.
>
> (gedit:12710): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown
> user id (2092094)
Since plash replaces libc, it should be possible to replace
getpwuid_r. How serious is this?
<snip>
>(I'm not trying for security here; this is for friendly programs)
> The union mounts feature looks very useful. Is there a way to access
> it from pola-run, or only though the Python API? Is it possible to
> have writes go to the lower level? Some packages will probably want to
> union onto /, but that shouldn't affect writes to /home, etc.
Since you are not trying for security, a simpler solution like
PlasticFS may be sufficient. See the union/viewpath filter section at:
http://plasticfs.sourceforge.net/
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
- [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Thomas Leonard, 2008/07/09
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem,
John McCabe-Dansted <=
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Mark Seaborn, 2008/07/10
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Thomas Leonard, 2008/07/12
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Thomas Leonard, 2008/07/12
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Mark Seaborn, 2008/07/13
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Mark Seaborn, 2008/07/13
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Mark Seaborn, 2008/07/20
- Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem, Thomas Leonard, 2008/07/23