Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:44:09PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Provide an fsopen() system call that starts the process of preparing to
> create a superblock that will then be mountable, using an fd as a context
> handle.  fsopen() is given the name of the filesystem that will be used:
> 
> 	int mfd = fsopen(const char *fsname, unsigned int flags);
> 
> where flags can be 0 or FSOPEN_CLOEXEC.
> 
> For example:
> 
> 	sfd = fsopen("ext4", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
> 	write(sfd, "s /dev/sdb1"); // note I'm ignoring write's length arg
> 	write(sfd, "o noatime");
> 	write(sfd, "o acl");
> 	write(sfd, "o user_attr");
> 	write(sfd, "o iversion");
> 	write(sfd, "o ");
> 	write(sfd, "r /my/container"); // root inside the fs
> 	write(sfd, "x create"); // create the superblock

Ugh, creating configfs again in a syscall form?  I know people love
file descriptors, but can't you do this with a configfs entry instead if
you really want to do this type of thing from userspace in this type of
"style"?

Why reinvent the wheel again?

thanks,

greg k-h