Hi

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lenn...@poettering.net> wrote:
> Hmm, so, I thought a lot about this in the past weeks. I think the way
> I'd really like to see this work in the end is that we never have to
> persist the UID mappings. This could work if the kernel would provide
> us with the ability to bind mount a file system into the container
> applying a fixed UID shift. That way, the shifted UIDs would never hit
> the actual disk, and hence we wouldn't have to persist their mappings.

An alternative would be to map UIDs to the owning user-namespace of
the current mount-namespace when accessing disks (which is the
user-namespace active at the time the mount-namespace was created).

Anyway, this all depends on kernel people to accept this..

Thanks
David
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