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

From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Date: Thu Aug 29 2019 - 08:35:33 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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