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Re: Having ten thousands of mount bind causes various processes to go into loops

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On 19/06/2024 19:06, Julien Petit wrote:
> It doesn't really matter where folders/mounts are. Users can share any
> directory (and subdirectories) in their home directory with any other
> user. The shared folder is mounted in the special directory "Shared
> with me" of the recipient home directory. I.e: John/Sales/Invoices is
> mounted in Alice/Shared with me/Invoices.

Can be done with symlinks.

I imagine there's some process that creates these bind mounts, so the 
process could create symlinks.

> Symlinks are no good since the user sharing his directory can decide
> to share it read/write to one user but read only to another

This can be solved with ACLs. Instead of creating a bind mount, this 
process that allows the user to share the directory can set an ACL and 
create a symlink.

PS: It would be better if you used a mailer that correctly sets mail 
headers References and/or In-Reply-To so that your replies are properly 
threaded.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br

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Re: Re: Having ten thousands of mount bind causes various processes  to go into loops Julien Petit <julien@nethik.fr> - 2024-06-20 00:30 +0200
  Re: Having ten thousands of mount bind causes various processes to go  into loops Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2024-06-20 00:40 +0200

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