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Message-ID: <61f26d16-36e9-9a3c-ad08-9ed2c8baa748@themaw.net>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:12:37 +0800
From:   Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:     Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL for v6.7] autofs updates

On 30/10/23 22:28, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 03:54:52PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>> On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote:
>>> Hey Linus,
>>>
>>> /* Summary */
>>> This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for
>>> quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up.
>>>
>>> This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage
>>> param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used to set
>>> param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure
>>> it's set.
>>>
>>> One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, albeit
>>> rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted
>>> is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't
>>> made it upstream.
>> Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted.
>>
>>
>> Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as the
>>
>> priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a chance
>>
>> to spend a bit more time on it)?
> I'm just starting to have a look at zonefs as a candidate.
> -Bill
>
And devpts looks fairly straight forward and is used a lot ... I'll see if

I can get time to get that one done, ;)


Ian


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