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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-06-02 14:43:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-09-13 20:16:03 -0700 |
| commit | ed8bd8452cf593ea1545d936f770603ed9268358 (patch) | |
| tree | 76532f5b75b9d648ca66fa842e7b9884d3284ffb /man7 | |
| parent | bc92175773945db8ed28670138ded7bf7153bede (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ed8bd8452cf593ea1545d936f770603ed9268358.tar.gz | |
user_namespaces.7: Rework text on filesystem support for user namespaces
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/user_namespaces.7 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7 index 36d3773d62..efb6d1c016 100644 --- a/man7/user_namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7 @@ -578,11 +578,13 @@ User namespaces require support in a range of subsystems across the kernel. When an unsupported subsystem is configured into the kernel, it is not possible to configure user namespaces support. -As at Linux 3.8, most relevant subsystems support user namespaces, -but there are a number of filesystems that do not. -Linux 3.9 added user namespaces support for many of the remaining -unsupported filesystems: -Plan 9 (9P), Andrew File System (AFS), Ceph, CIFS, CODA, NFS, and OCFS2. + +As at Linux 3.8, most relevant subsystems supported user namespaces, +but a number of filesystems did not have the infrastructure needed +to map user and group IDs between user namespaces. +Linux 3.9 added the required infrastructure support for many of +the remaining unsupported filesystems +(Plan 9 (9P), Andrew File System (AFS), Ceph, CIFS, CODA, NFS, and OCFS2). XFS support for user namespaces is not yet available. .\" .SH EXAMPLE |