Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:12:37 +0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL for v6.7] autofs updates | From | Ian Kent <> |
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On 30/10/23 22:28, Bill O'Donnell wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 03:54:52PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: >> On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote: >>> Hey Linus, >>> >>> /* Summary */ >>> This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for >>> quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up. >>> >>> This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage >>> param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used to set >>> param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure >>> it's set. >>> >>> One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, albeit >>> rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted >>> is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't >>> made it upstream. >> Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted. >> >> >> Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as the >> >> priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a chance >> >> to spend a bit more time on it)? > I'm just starting to have a look at zonefs as a candidate. > -Bill > And devpts looks fairly straight forward and is used a lot ... I'll see if
I can get time to get that one done, ;)
Ian
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