On 12/13/2016 06:49 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > 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. Thanks, Nikolaus! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
