On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Dirk Schönberger wrote: > A problem of such an approach is that mounted file systems are visible > globally. A better solution would be a file system which is only visible > in a local environment. Unfortunately real user space per process file > systems are not yet available on Unix like sstems, including Linux and > Darwin / MacOSX. >
There has been work done on the linux kernel to allow private mounts. http://groups.google.com.au/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/62624da3dd5b31bc/bf3ca193c4dab012 The shared subtree patch is probably sufficient? http://groups.google.com.au/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/392c6d4e048ea3e8/46daf8d6e2c714cb -f
