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:: --[[User:MrMizo|MrMizo]] ([[User talk:MrMizo|talk]]) 10:37, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
: I stumbled into this page, and as an industry veteran of multiple decades, I very much agree with the "dangerous misconception" statement above. OS containers are about *isolation* not *virtualization*. These are distinct concepts in the tech world, and this page/article is incorrectly conflating them in a way that will hurt industry discourse and general understanding for its readers. Container isolation can only be considered "virtualization" in the weakest sense of the word virtualization, which is a sense that is not typically used in the industry because it then becomes a useless word. To give an analogy, process isolation is about permission: within an isolated process namespace, processes do not have permission to see processes from outside of that namespace. By analogy, on a typical filesystem, the permissions of the filesystem are unlikely to allow user A to deeply traverse into user B's personal home area. Would one then say that "the filesystem permissions are an OS-level virtualization because from a user A process's perspective it cannot access user B's storage resources and thus is seeing a 'virtualized disk that doesn't contain user B's resources'"? Of course not. Perhaps we could benefit from a clarification section _somewhere_ about the difference between "the literal english word's meaning" and "the common meaning in industry in the context in which this article lives", where one of those includes things like "containers" and the other doesn't.
: As I'm not typically a wikipedia editor, how do disputes about fundamental definitions or "terms of art" get resolved? Do I just add a "This is classification or definition is disputed" text or label to the page? [[User:VDave420|VDave420]] ([[User talk:VDave420|talk]]) 23:57, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
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