since there are only about 20 of the 90 cifs mount options that are needed for 99% of the cases this tool may not be that bad to create - and of course for extra-credit/bonus-points a GUI mount tool which exposes the smallest sane subset of mount options might be useful to some - and could also be added to cifs-utils On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:44 PM Kenneth Dsouza <kdsouza@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks, I will take a look at the pre-existing code for > reference(nfs-utils and other). > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think this is a reasonable idea - and nfs-utils's parsing for this > > config file (in mount.nfs e.g.) may be similar enough to smb3 > > requirements in some cases - but don't rule out the idea of seeing if > > anything is shareable/reuseable with Samba (to allow e.g. smbcacls or > > small client utilities to benefit from cifs.ko configuration and vice > > versa). In addition don't rule out the idea of writing small > > cifs-utils that allow sane setting of the text configuration file (ala > > "net conf <section> <keyword> <value>" or equivalent. One of the > > curses of many text config files is difficulty figuring out > > options/syntax etc. and making spelling mistakes so in a perfect world > > the user could set the config file values with an easy to use > > cifs-util tool (vaguely similar to "net conf ..." perhaps) > > > > If we allow setting the 5-10 module install parms and then the things > > configurable in /proc/fs/cifs/* ... we would need some way to load > > them on reboot. > > > > The nfs example may be useful but it is more focused on mount parms it > > seems rather than other config values. > > > > But if you want to pursue this it seems promising to investigate > > nfsmount.conf and whether there is something vaguely similar we could > > do for smb3 but ... I would prefer if along with that we had an easy > > to use tool to set the values and provide help on the valid options > > etc. (there may be a lot we can also learn by the way from other fs > > tools as models - e.g. "iostat" and "nfsiostat" if looking at these > > tools for other file systems) > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 9:35 PM Kenneth Dsouza <kdsouza@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > I agree we can have a cifs-conf command for example. This command > will help us retrieve mount settings and make changes directly to the > /etc/cifsmount.conf. > This will help us to only add valid options and avoid typos. > > >> > >> I was just wondering why we don't have a /etc/cifsmount.conf just like /etc/nfsmount.conf for mount options. I would like to work on it, if we can add this functionality. > >> Using this we can easily disable smb1. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Kenneth D'souza > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > > > Steve -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
