Re: [RFC PATCH] NFS: add a sysfs file for enabling & disabling nfs features

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On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 8:56 AM Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 21 Apr 2023, at 14:27, Anna Schumaker wrote:
>
> > From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > And add some basic checking so we only enable features that are present
> > in a given NFS version.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> This is great, I like how you've kept the +/- notation similar to knfsd
> supported versions.
>
> Another way to do this would be an attribute file per capability, setting it
> to 0 or 1 which is more inline with sysfs usage.
>
> I think if we do use this, we ought to leave readdir plus out of it because
> there's already a mount option for it.  Readdir plus can be turned on and
> off with a remount already.  The issue for me would be how to work out what
> the behavior should be when we have a mount that has "nordirplus" and then
> someone tries to toggle it via sysfs.

That makes sense!
>
> Any other thoughts?

I guess if we remove the readdir plus option, then we could make it so
this file only shows up on v4.2 mounts.
>
> I'll add this patch to my future postings of sysfs work.

Do you want a v2 without the readdir plus line, and with the v4.2 restriction?

Anna

>
> Ben
>




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