[PATCH v2 1/4] erofs: add file-backed mount support

[Gao Xiang]

On 2024/10/2 14:12, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 04:18:19PM GMT, Jan Kara wrote:

..

>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/erofs/Kconfig b/fs/erofs/Kconfig
>>>> index 7dcdce660cac..1428d0530e1c 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/erofs/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/fs/erofs/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -74,6 +74,23 @@ config EROFS_FS_SECURITY
>>>>
>>>>            If you are not using a security module, say N.
>>>>
>>>> +config EROFS_FS_BACKED_BY_FILE
>>>> +       bool "File-backed EROFS filesystem support"
>>>> +       depends on EROFS_FS
>>>> +       default y
>>>
>>> I am a bit reluctant to have this default to y, without an ack from
>>> the VFS maintainers.
>>
>> Well, we generally let filesystems do whatever they decide to do unless it
>> is a affecting stability / security / maintainability of the whole system.
>> In this case I don't see anything that would be substantially different
>> than if we go through a loop device. So although the feature looks somewhat
>> unusual I don't see a reason to nack it or otherwise interfere with
>> whatever the fs maintainer wants to do. Are you concerned about a
>> particular problem?
> 
> I see no reason to nak it either.

Thanks all for taking time on writing down these!

Unfortunately, fanotify pre-content hooks was't landed in 6.12 cycle
(which I think will be used in a lot of scenarios)..

I do hope it could be landed in the next cycle so I could clean up
the codebase then.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang