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)? 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-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
