Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: syscalls: Add create_automount() and remove_automount()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:07 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Actually, since this is apparently a different filetype, the _logical_
> thing to do is to use "mknod()".

Btw, don't get me wrong. I realize that you want to send other
information too in order to fill in all the metadata for what the
mountpoint then _does_.

So the "mknod()" thing would be just to create a local placeholder
(and an exclusive name) on the client - and then you do the ioctl on
that (or whatever) that sends over the metadata to the server along
with the name.

Think of it as a way to get a place to hook into things, and a (local
only) reservation for the name.

               Linus