On 12 Mar 2025, at 18:48, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:46 -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote: >> There are certain users that wish to force the NFS client to choose >> READDIRPLUS over READDIR for a particular mount. Add a new kernel >> mount >> option "force_rdirplus" to carry that intent. > > Could we perhaps convert rdirplus to be a string with an optional > payload? Does the "fs_param_can_be_empty" flag allow you to convert > rdirplus into something that can behave as currently if you just > specify '-ordirplus', but that would allow you to specify '- > ordirplus=force' if you wanted to always use readdirplus? Yes, I think that's possible. I originally started down that route, but abandoned it after it appeared to be a bigger code diff because you have to re-define the nordirplus option which we get for free with fsparam_flag_no. I can send a v2 that way if it's preferred. Ben
