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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:23:39 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkenn@rebel.net.au>
To:        "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@acl.lanl.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem question...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907230221030.87625-100000@morden.rebel.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9907221046150.143827-100000@acl.lanl.gov>

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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> what if you're not root, and you want to add your own file system to your
> file system name space? It seems a lot of these systems assume root
> access, which seems unrealistic to me.

Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you need root
permissions to load it. If it's running as a userland process, then
there's no reason why you can't run it as a user. mount presumably
wouldn't care as long as you had access rights to the underlying objects
(mountpoint + stacking layer process).

Kris



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