Re: [PATCH 0/2] virtio-fs: Add 'file' mount option

[Hanna Czenczek]

On 11.07.24 10:21, Hanna Czenczek wrote:
> On 10.07.24 20:42, Josef Bacik wrote:

[...]

> > So then the question is, why does it matter what virtiofsd is 
> > exposing?  I guess
> > that's the better question.  The guest shouldn't have to care if it's a
> > directory or a file right?  The mountpoint is going to be a 
> > directory, whatever
> > is backing it shouldn't matter.  Could you describe the exact thing 
> > you're
> > trying to accomplish?  Thanks,
>
> The mount point needs to be of the same mode as the root node of the 
> mounted filesystem, or it’ll be inaccessible after mounting[1].  In 
> this case, I want to export a regular file as the root node, so the 
> root node must be a regular file, too:

Sorry, I meant “[…], so the mount point must be a regular file, too”.

Hanna