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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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