Union mount /etc/{,guest-session/}skel, instead of copying it over
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Light Display Manager |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Now that OverlayFS is included in Linux kernel since release 3.18, I wonder if it should be considered to use union-mounting of /etc/{,
It would make guest login faster and reduce amount of memory consumption, specially if /etc/guest-
It could fall back to AuFS if OverlayFS is not available, and even to copy over if none oy them is available.
It could also be combined with BindFS to do proper UID/GID mapping, so that each guest account can see itself as the owner of /etc/guest-
Related branches
- Robert Ancell: Pending requested
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Diff: 12 lines (+1/-1)1 file modifieddebian/guest-account.sh (+1/-1)
| summary: |
- guest-account: consider union-mounting /etc/{,guest-session/}skel + guest-account: consider union-mounting /etc/{,guest-session/}skel, instead of copying it over |
| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote Re: guest-account: consider union-mounting /etc/{,guest-session/}skel, instead of copying it over | #1 |
| Changed in lightdm: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Laércio de Sousa (lbssousa) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in lightdm: | |
| milestone: | none → 1.17.0 |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| summary: |
- guest-account: consider union-mounting /etc/{,guest-session/}skel, - instead of copying it over + Union mount /etc/{,guest-session/}skel, instead of copying it over |
| Changed in lightdm: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Interesting idea - faster login is desirable. Would this lead to files that couldn't be deleted by the guest account?