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See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html X-Headers-End: 1vhjeT-00011O-Fz Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 00/29] fs: require filesystems to explicitly opt-in to nfsd export support X-BeenThere: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Martin Brandenburg , jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Jan Kara , Paulo Alcantara , Alex Markuze , Sandeep Dhavale , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Carlos Maiolino , Amir Goldstein , linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, Konstantin Komarov , Chris Mason , Andreas Dilger , Chunhai Guo , Ronnie Sahlberg , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Mike Marshall , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, Yue Hu , Miklos Szeredi , Richard Weinberger , Mark Fasheh , Hugh Dickins , Dai Ngo , Ryusuke Konishi , Christoph Hellwig , Viacheslav Dubeyko , Gao Xiang , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Salah Triki , linux-mm@kvack.org, devel@lists.orangefs.org, Shyam Prasad N , Olga Kornievskaia , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Tom Talpey , ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev, Bharath SM , David Sterba , Alexander Viro , Baolin Wang , Jeffle Xu , Jaegeuk Kim , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Ilya Dryomov , OGAWA Hirofumi , Andreas Gruenbacher , gfs2@lists.linux.dev, Christian Brauner , Theodore Ts'o , Luis de Bethencourt , Joseph Qi , linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, Jeff Layton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Steve French , Chuck Lever , Hongbo Li , Anna Schumaker , Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Lougher , Andrew Morton , ntfs3@lists.linux.dev, David Woodhouse , Trond Myklebust , Joel Becker Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: linux-f2fs-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 06:22:42PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > We are calling it for it's only use. If there was ever another use, we > could change the name if that made sense. It is not a public name, it > is easy to change. No, it is not the only use. This flag needs to be propagate to userspace through statx or the file attrs. As I said before there is plenty of code in userspace that does rely on the traditional file handle semantics. > > Remember nfs also support volatile file handles, and other applications > > might rely on this (I know of quite a few user space applications that > > do, but they are kinda hardwired to xfs anyway). > > The NFS protocol supports volatile file handles. knfsd does not. > So maybe > EXPORT_OP_NOT_NFSD_COMPATIBLE > might be better. or EXPORT_OP_NOT_LINUX_NFSD_COMPATIBLE. > (I prefer opt-out rather than opt-in because nfsd export was the > original purpose of export_operations, but it isn't something > I would fight for) Again, stop trying to name things of the initial user. Flag needs to describe smenatics, not users. _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel