Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What I think we should have is a ioctl(), system-call, > > /proc/fs/cifs/options, where we can query the kernel/file-system > > module > > for "give me a list of all recognized mount options and their type" > > i.e. basically a way to fetch the "struct fs_parameter_spec" to userspace. > > > > This is probably something that would not be specific to cifs, but > > would apply to all filesystem modules. > > That sounds like a good idea yes. I wonder if David Howells has > considered this. I had this. Al disliked it and removed it before the patches got upstream. Also Linus hated the fsinfo() syscall that was the way to get this (amongst other things). David
