On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:19:19PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> OK - why don't we just add this (ie the ioctl removal) to the patch
>
> [PATCH] unprivileged mount/umount
>
> of Miklos et al, since that removes the need to modify showmounts (and
> avoids any name collision/confusion
> with the existing meaning of the mount option "uid" ie as the default
> uid to use for files on the system when
> mounting to servers which can not return inode owners as uids).
I think that would be best. It still needs a little work first.
> On another topic relating to ioctls, various people have suggested
> adding an ioctl to add a table to optionally map file owner (uid / gid
> mapping tables) on remote filesystems. Although this is easy enough to
> do for the case of CIFS, this seems like a function (loading the table)
> that could be done via /proc or perhaps even sysfs. Is there are
> precedent for doing this on Linux?
I don't think that mapping should happen in kernelspace. It would
be nice if you could share that with nfs, maybe even generalizing the
nfsv4 one.
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