linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines

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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:35:28 +0100
From:   Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:     Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtio-fs@...hat.com,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual
 machines

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:28:27AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 7:38 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> wrote:

Thanks!

>  - removed option parsing completely.  Virtiofs config is fixed to "-o
> rootmode=040000,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,default_permissions".
> Does this sound reasonable?

That simplifies things for users and I've never seen a need to change
these options in virtio-fs.  If we need the control for some reason in
the future we can add options back in again.

> I think we also need something in
> "Documentation/filesystems/virtiofs.rst" which describes the design
> (how  request gets to userspace and back) and how to set up the
> server, etc...  Stefan, Vivek can you do something like that?

Sure.  I'll send a patch.

Stefan

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