On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:17 AM Johannes Schauer <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > Quoting Shengjing Zhu (2020-05-18 19:35:38) > > It may be interesting to use cloned chroot as schroot when using unshare > > backend. > > > > I find fuse-overlayfs[1] claims it can be used in user namespace, as FUSE > > has supported user namespace since kernel 4.18. > > > > [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fuse-overlayfs > > I don't understand. What is it that you are proposing? What is the bug or the > feature request?
It's a feature request. I wish the unshare backend can not only use tarball and untar it when building, but also support mounting an overlay when building, like schroot. I choose the wrong word, since the tarball mode also means cloned chroot. sorry for the confusion. >Your two sentences don't tell me what you'd like sbuild to do. In your >follow-up email please be specific about what you propose and why it would be >useful and an improvement over the status-quo. > The second sentence is a possible implementation. Mounting an overlay needs privileged permission. But the beauty of the unshare backend is that it doesn't need privilege. So I just propose the fuse-overlayfs. -- Shengjing Zhu
