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For OpenVZ, Linux kernel namespaces are used as containers building blocks. A simple case of a namespace is chroot.
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=== Chroot ===
Traditional UNIX <code>chroot()</code> system call is used to change the root of the file system of a calling process to a particular directory. That way it limits the scope of file system for the process, so it can only see and access a limited sub tree of files and directories.