Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261516AbVEPJe3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 05:34:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261503AbVEPJe2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 05:34:28 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56743 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261525AbVEPJeL (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 05:34:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:34:08 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steve French Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: handle termination of cifs oplockd kernel thread Message-ID: <20050516093408.GA20696@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4272A275.4030801@austin.rr.com> <20050429213108.GA15262@infradead.org> <4272B335.5090207@austin.rr.com> <20050511085619.GA24841@infradead.org> <42824CA7.9040201@austin.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42824CA7.9040201@austin.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1326 Lines: 29 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/