Re: [PATCH] cifs: add IOCTL for QUERY_INFO passthrough to userspace

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Would be really nice to do the plumbing to get SMB2_QUERY_QUOTA_INFO
working too so that we can surface the quota info to userspace.
Displaying true quota to userspace I think is still one of the larger
gaps we have.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 1:48 PM, ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Tom Talpey <ttalpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> I think it's a mistake to name anything beginning with "cifs" in
>>> today's world. I suggest "smbfileinfo". But isn't this really just
>>> an extended version of stat(1)? Would a name in line with that
>>> usage be more appropriate?
>>
>> Yes cifsstat or smbstat sounds a lot better indeed.
>>
>> As for cifs vs smb, unfortunately "cifs" is used *everywhere* in the
>> cifs-utils package. The name, the utilities name, the man pages,
>> configure options, etc. I've tried to use SMB in the man page but it
>> makes the package a bit inconsistent. Ideally we should rename
>> everything but that's going to break a lot of stuff downstream.
>
> smbstat would be really nice.  And have it implement all the info levels that
> QUERY_INFO supports.
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
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