Re: [PATCH] fuse.4: Add new file describing /dev/fuse

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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.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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