Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-16 Thread Carl Schaefer
If you give me a valid use case for USER_NS, I might reconsider, but every use case I can imagine is crushed by the limitations of the implementation. The use case is that you don't need root access to start a container. I can run Firefox with a limited view to the filesystem for

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Damjan Georgievski
yey thanks for CONFIG_USER_NS=y On 4 August 2014 09:38, Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, just released 3.16 kernel to [testing] repository. Only r8168 binary module did not build. Please take a look at it. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Damjan Georgievski
On 13 August 2014 17:26, Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote: yey thanks for CONFIG_USER_NS=y ahh no, I'm stupid. Checked it on another machine and got excited before hand :/ anyway. is there a reason this is not enabled now? all the mainstream distros hae it enabled now Fedora,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.08.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: On 13 August 2014 17:26, Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote: yey thanks for CONFIG_USER_NS=y ahh no, I'm stupid. Checked it on another machine and got excited before hand :/ anyway. is there a reason this is not enabled now?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Leonid Isaev
Hi, On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:44:39PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 13.08.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: On 13 August 2014 17:26, Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote: yey thanks for CONFIG_USER_NS=y ahh no, I'm stupid. Checked it on another machine and got

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/13/2014 08:09 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: As you know, user_ns is a necesary prerequisite for unpriviileged containers: https://www.stgraber.org/2014/01/17/lxc-1-0-unprivileged-containers/ . AFAIU, currently only Ubuntu 14.04 supports those. However, I agree with you that CONFIG_USER_NS is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Damjan Georgievski
anyway. is there a reason this is not enabled now? all the mainstream distros hae it enabled now Fedora, RHEL/CentOS 7, Ubuntu and Debian (at least on the backported kernel) I'd think about it, if the feature wasn't entirely useless. Despite the lack of official documentation, I found a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 08:21:32PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Easing the work by defaulting to a ready-to-work kernel would be nice. I think that LXC is used by minority of users (myself included). So, enabling USER_NS by default would put the rest of (unsuspecting) users in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.08.2014 um 19:40 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: anyway. is there a reason this is not enabled now? all the mainstream distros hae it enabled now Fedora, RHEL/CentOS 7, Ubuntu and Debian (at least on the backported kernel) I'd think about it, if the feature wasn't entirely useless. Despite

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Daniel Micay
On 13/08/14 12:44 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 13.08.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: On 13 August 2014 17:26, Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote: yey thanks for CONFIG_USER_NS=y ahh no, I'm stupid. Checked it on another machine and got excited before hand :/ anyway. is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Daniel Micay
On 13/08/14 01:40 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: anyway. is there a reason this is not enabled now? all the mainstream distros hae it enabled now Fedora, RHEL/CentOS 7, Ubuntu and Debian (at least on the backported kernel) I'd think about it, if the feature wasn't entirely useless. Despite the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Daniel Micay
On 13/08/14 01:21 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 08/13/2014 08:09 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: As you know, user_ns is a necesary prerequisite for unpriviileged containers: https://www.stgraber.org/2014/01/17/lxc-1-0-unprivileged-containers/ . AFAIU, currently only Ubuntu 14.04 supports