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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0810141512570.14752@dhcppc2>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:16:43 +0300 (MET DST)
From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@...s-3g.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
cc: tj@...nel.org, fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, greg@...ah.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more
operations
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I still got qualms about this ioctl thing. One is the security
> aspect, but that could be dealt with. The other is that I really
> really don't want people to start implementing new custom ioctls for
> their filesystems, as I think that way lies madness. We could limit
> ioctls to CUSE and that would be fine with me. Or for non-CUSE users
> we could enforce the "standard" format where the type and length is
> encoded in the command number.
Is this enough to support the most useful/requested file system ioctls,
like FIEMAP?
Thanks,
Szaka
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