[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Introduction: Helper utilitiesfor CIFS VFS client

[Suresh Jayaraman]

Steve French wrote:
> The code looks fine, but I think the utilities would be better if they
> allowed you to do things in an easier way than e.g. what you must do
> now
> This seems to match too closely to the syntax of proc and not save
> much typing/looking up of things 

Thanks for taking a look at this.
I agree that it is currently not saving much of looking up. However, I
think it saves some amout of typing atleast for e.g.

Instead of: "echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/traceSMB"
we can say: "cifsconfig -t 1"

and perhaps abstracts the proc interface to the user?

> but perhaps could if we exposed the
> "sec=" options in more detail.  

Agree.

> We also could use a utility to
> translate traceSMB data in dmesg into wireshark format (so we could
> read dmesg smb data in the wireshark gui easily)

Correct, I think it will take some time.

> useful to have easier mount syntax for new users (perhaps interactive
> series of Q&A options if mount.cifs is compiled a certain way??) - but
> a GUI might be the best for this since there are so many options -

Yeah, I too think GUI is the best option here.

> some of which are sensitive to the presence/absence of other mount
> options.   I also think it would also be better if the help for the
> options (from fs/cifs/README) were included in the help

Will try and see how much information can be squeezed in help.

Let me work on the suggested items keeping the inputs in mind and get back.

Thanks,

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Suresh Jayaraman