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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:43:37 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@...eaurora.org>
Cc: Nikolaus Rath <nikolaus@...h.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
fuse-devel <fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, sven.utcke@....de,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Antonio SJ Musumeci <trapexit@...wn.link>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>
> FUSE allows users to implement extensions to filesystems ..such as enforcing policy or permissions without having to modify the kernel or maintain the policy in the kernel.
>
> One such example is what was quoted by Antonio above ..
> Another example is a fuse based filesystem that tries to enforce additional permissions on a FAT based mount point.
>
> From what i could google there are many FUSE based filesystems out there that do things during the open call but simply pass through the read/and write I/O calls to the local "lower" filesystem where they actually store the data.
So I think these are valid use-cases, and I just think that they should
(a) be documented in the commit message as explanations of why people
would do this/
(b) not be called "stacked", because that tends to have some other
connotations to fs people.
I don't know what a better term would be, but you yourself used "pass
through". Maybe that (perhaps together with a clarification that it's
a per-file thing) might work fine.
Btw, why is mmap not passed through? That sounds fairly simple and
straightforward, I'm not seeing why it would be missing.
Linus
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