On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:23:52PM -0800, EKC wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering whether or not anyone is working on getting the COW > patch to support chmod and chown operations?
the CoW stuff still could use some cleanup and better error handling. AFAIK nobody is working on that right now ... > 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? have a look at the broken out version, it will probably help to get a feeling for the code ... > I'm also concerned about breaking my upgrade path to future versions > of vserver. if you do a nice job, I don't see much issues with getting the functionality into mainline ... > 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? nope, that one is probably the best choice ... > Thanks in advance. > > BTW, vserver is awesome! second that :) best, Herbert > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
