linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 00/39] fs: idmapped mounts

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Message-ID: <20201117165433.316f5625@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:54:33 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/39] fs: idmapped mounts

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 11:36:39 +0100
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com> wrote:

One quick question...

> I have written a simple tool available at
> https://github.com/brauner/mount-idmapped that allows to create idmapped
> mounts so people can play with this patch series.

I spent a while looking at that tool.  When actually setting the namespace
for the mapping, it uses MOUNT_ATTR_SHIFT rather than MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP.
The value is the same, so I expect it works...:)  But did that perhaps not
get updated to reflect a name change?

Thanks,

jon