Re: [RFC V2 11/18] famfs_fuse: Basic famfs mount opts

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Thu Aug 14 2025 - 06:40:18 EST


On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 at 07:54, Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 10:28:20AM -0500, John Groves wrote:

> > famfs_fuse: Basic famfs mount opt: -o shadow=<shadowpath>
> >
> > The shadow path is a (usually tmpfs) file system area used by the famfs
> > user space to commuicate with the famfs fuse server. There is a minor
> > dilemma that the user space tools must be able to resolve from a mount
> > point path to a shadow path. The shadow path is exposed via /proc/mounts,
> > but otherwise not used by the kernel. User space gets the shadow path
> > from /proc/mounts...

Don't know if we want to go that way. Is there no other way?

But if we do, at least do it in a generic way. I.e. fuse server can
tell the kernel to display options A, B and C in /proc/mounts.

Thanks,
Miklos