Details:
shiftfs is a kernel filesystem for uid/gid-shifting.
It is used by LXD for example.
More Details in the official LXD forum:
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/trying-out-shiftfs/5155
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-usecases-of-shiftfs-volume-disk-share/7735
Report on the initial implementation in the Ubuntu Kernel repo:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1823186
Usage in LXD:
If you use the LXD package from the Arch Repos, shiftfs will be enabled by default. You can check whether it is enabled with "lxc info" (look for: shiftfs: "true").
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G3ro commented on 2020-09-28 22:17
Details:
shiftfs is a kernel filesystem for uid/gid-shifting.
It is used by LXD for example.
More Details in the official LXD forum:
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/trying-out-shiftfs/5155
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-usecases-of-shiftfs-volume-disk-share/7735
Report on the initial implementation in the Ubuntu Kernel repo:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1823186
Usage in LXD:
If you use the LXD package from the Arch Repos, shiftfs will be enabled by default. You can check whether it is enabled with "lxc info" (look for: shiftfs: "true").