Hi, Just wondering whether or not anyone is working on getting the COW patch to support chmod and chown operations?
I'm thinking of using vserver to sell virtual hosting, and I don't want to place any restrictions on the ability of clients to transparently modify files. I also want to retain the space-saving benefits of vhashify. So, basically, I want to have my cake and eat it too. If no one is working on adding chmod and chown support to the COW patch, how hard would it be to make such modifications? I recently completed taking an Operating Systems class at University (implementing virtual memory in C code, file systems, multiprogramming, threads, etc...); I'm not sure if that qualifies me to hack the vserver code. I'm also not familiar with the Vserver code at all. How difficult would it be for me to add this functionality? I'm also concerned about breaking my upgrade path to future versions of vserver. I'm currently using the vserver kernel patch at: http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-2.6.16-rc5-vs2.1.1-rc10.diff Should I be using a different patch? Thanks in advance. BTW, vserver is awesome! _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
