[libvirt] [PATCH] Add --disable-securityfs configure option

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:28:23AM +0000, Purcareata Bogdan-B43198 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 1:15 PM
> > To: Purcareata Bogdan-B43198
> > Cc: libvir-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add --disable-securityfs configure option
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:53:12PM +0300, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> > > Securityfs is not enabled on all kernels running libvirt containers.
> > > This patch introduces a configure option that can specify whether
> > > containers should mount securityfs in their rootfs.
> > 
> > It would be nicer to detect this at runtime, rather than fixing it
> > at build time. eg check whether the filesystem is mounted on the
> > host, and if not, then don't mount it in the container.
> 
> Isn't it better to detect it based on kernel filesystem support?
> I mean, instead of checking whether securityfs is mounted, check
> whether it's present in /proc/filesystems.

Yep, that would work too.

Daniel
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