[Virtio-fs] [RFC PATCH 0/5] fuse: Implement FUSE_HANDLE_KILLPRIV_V2 and enable SB_NOSEC

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:02 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:

> So how about, we instead implement a flag which tells fuse that
> file server is implementing a local filesystem and it does not
> expect anything to changed outside fuse. This will make sure
> distributed filesystems like gluster don't regress because
> of this change and a class of local filesystems can gain from
> this. Once we support sharing mode in virtiofs, then we will
> need to revisit it again and do it right for distributed
> filesystems (depending on their invalidation mechanism).

Okay, sounds good.

This flag can be set on "cache=always" in virtiofsd.

Thanks,
Miklos