linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Add VirtualBox guest shared folder (vboxsf) support

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Message-ID: <8ed7e4d5-4d21-b5b0-a96f-94d856f4f506@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:01:29 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@...cle.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Add VirtualBox guest shared folder (vboxsf)
 support

Hi,

On 15-01-18 18:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The mount uabi stuff is a red flag - all filesystems should use
> text options only these days.  From a 20 second view it seems like
> this one does that, and the header can just be removed, but if not
> a lot more work will be needed.

Thank you for the quick feedback. I already expected this would be a
problem, but I kept it around for 100% compatibility with the out of
tree version of the vboxsf driver. I will fix this for v3 and coordinate
with vbox upstream what to do about the compatibility issue.

Regards,

Hans