[Gllug] Combining SMB and NFS - was Embedded Linux & 1Gbps

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On 17 Oct 2007, tethys at gmail.com outgrape:
> At first glance, the concept of per-user mounts would appear to solve
> that problem. However, that's been shot down in flames (legitimately,
> I might add) by Al Viro et al. I'm still not 100% convinced that
> private mounts can't be made to work,

What? We *have* per-user and private mounts. Al and others went to
enormous effort over many years to make them possible.

What we don't have is a secure way of mounting arbitrary filesystems
without risking that the owner of those filesystems or their mounter
might be able to gain root...

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