Re: [MAINTAINERS/KERNEL SUMMIT] Trust and maintenance of file systems

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-09-06T19:10:06Z

Hi Christian,

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 5:06 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> util-linux has already implemented X-mount.auto-fstypes which we
> requested. For example, X-mount.auto-fstypes="ext4,xfs" accepts only
> ext4 and xfs, and X-mount.auto-fstypes="novfat,reiserfs" accepts all

I hope that should be achieved using "novfat,noreiserfs"?

And let's hope we don't get any future file system named no<something> ;-)

> filesystems except vfat and reiserfs.
>
> https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/1592425a0a1472db3168cd9247f001d7c5dd84b6
>
> IOW,
> mount -t X-mount.auto-fstypes="ext4,xfs,btrfs,erofs" /dev/bla /mnt
> would only mount these for filesystems and refuse the rest.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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