Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

[Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:19:46PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> I think using mount namespaces is a bit nicer solution for the problem:
...
> I'm not sure you can achieve this via systemd's .mount units, although
> systemd itself also makes use of mount namespaces.  For example, systemd
> uses them to provide a per-service /tmp, make /home unaccessible or only
> allowing read-only access to /usr or /etc for individual service.  See
> the PrivateTmp=, ProtectHome=, ProtectSystem=, PrivateDevices=,
> ReadOnlyDirectories=, InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadWriteDirectories=
> in man:systemd.exec(5).

Thanks, that does look useful. I will look into this some more.