linux-kernel - Re: Should we split the network filesystem setup into two phases?

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:23:23 +0200
From:   Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>
To:     Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        trond.myklebust@...merspace.com,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Steve Dickson <steved@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        ebiederm@...hat.com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Should we split the network filesystem setup into two phases?

Steve French <smfrench@...il.com> writes:
> In cifs we attempt to match new mounts to existing tree connections
> (instances of connections to a \\server\share) from other mount(s)
> based first on whether security settings match (e.g. are both
> Kerberos) and then on whether encryption is on/off and whether this is
> a snapshot mount (smb3 previous versions feature).  If neither is
> mounted with a snaphsot and the encryption settings match then
> we will use the same tree id to talk with the server as the other
> mounts use.  Interesting idea to allow mount to force a new
> tree id.

We actually already have this mount option in cifs.ko, it's "nosharesock".

> What was the NFS mount option you were talking about?
> Looking at the nfs man page the only one that looked similar
> was "nosharecache"

Cheers,
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