On Dec 12 2016, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/11/2016 08:55 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> On Dec 11 2016, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 12/11/2016 04:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>>> On Dec 11 2016, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On 12/10/2016 10:13 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 10 2016, Keno Fischer <keno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>> This is my writeup of a basic description of /dev/fuse after playing with >>>>>>> it for a few hours today. It is of course woefully incomplete, and since >>>>>>> I neither have a use case nor am working on this code, I will not be >>>>>>> in a position to expand it in the near future. However, I'm hoping this >>>>>>> could still serve as a handy reference for others looking at this interface. >>>>>> >>>>>> That's great! It makes me wonder: >>>>>> >>>>>> At the moment, libfuse ships a mount.fuse(8) manpage that documents both >>>>>> the mount options that can be passed to the kernel, and the pseudo-mount >>>>>> options that can be used when using libfuse (but that are actually >>>>>> implemented in userspace). >>>>>> >>>>>> Would it make sense to remove everything kernel related from >>>>>> mount.fuse(8) and move it into linux-manpages? >>>>>> >>>>>> Here's the manpage I'm talking about: >>>>>> https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/master/doc/mount.fuse.8 >>>>> >>>>> I can see pros and cons. mount(8) does a similar thing >>>>> for mount options understood by the kernel. So there is precedent >>>>> for the approach taken in mount.fuse.8 >>>> >>>> The difference is that all the options in mount(8) are meant to be used >>>> by the user calling mount, while a good fraction of the (kernel) mount >>>> options for FUSE filesystems are not meant to be passed by the user but >>>> must be generated by the filesystem internally. >>> >>> Okay -- that's a significant difference. So, I see the logic of >>> the proposal... >> >> In that case, what do you think would be the best place? Add a new >> manpage? Add them to mount(8)? Or to fuse(4)? > > I wonder about possibly a fuse(7) page? Sounds good to me. I'll see what I can do. I've added https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/issues/131 as a reminder. Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
