Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:45:50 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/8] kernfs: let objects opt-in to propagating from the initial namespace |
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Hello,
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:39:50PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > Another problem is that you might have two devices of the same class > with the same name that belong to different namespaces and if you shown > them all in the initial namespace you get clashes. This was one of the > original reasons why network devices are only shown in the namespace > they belong to but not in any other.
For example, pid namespace has the same issue but it doesn't solve the problem by breaking up visibility at the root level - it makes everything visiable at root but give per-ns aliases which are selectively visble depending on the namespace. From administration POV, this is way easier and less error-prone to deal with and I was hoping that we could head that way rather than netdev way for new things.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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