linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

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Date:   Tue, 09 May 2017 10:56:44 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com> wrote:

> So say we have commands like
> 
> "o+ foo"
> "o- bar"

The convention seems to be to prepend "no" to things you want to disable, so
let's stick with that, e.g.:

	"o foo"
	"o nobar"

otherwise we will have to have separate parsers for old mount() and the new sb
config code - and not just for NFS, but at least for ext2/3/4 also.

Further, we can only publish one format in /proc/mounts - and we cannot change
that from the foo/nofoo standard we already use as it's part of the UAPI.

> The generic option parser would just add or remove the option in the
> current set of options,

It sounds like you want to build up a string of "opt1,opt2,opt3" then have the
VFS add and remove things from it and then parse it into the filesystem's
internal structures on "commit".

> and commit would just call ->remount_fs() with the new set of options.

You're defining "commit" to do different things depending on the situation.
You need a separation between "commit create" and "commit update".

> It would probably not work for the NFS case, but that's okay, NFS can
> implement its own option parsing.

If NFS has to implement its own option parsing, we've done it wrong.

David