vfs_auto

Tue Jun 24 02:48:06 MDT 2014

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 07:07:26PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Seeing what looks like a really interesting module in vfs_snap, and
> thinking about the trouble folks running btrfs and zfs have with Samba,
> having to run specific modules, I wondered if we should have a new,
> meta-module: vfs_auto
> 
> That is:  We can detect almost as well as the system administrator what
> VFS modules they need for specific back-end file systems, and we hide so
> much of our correctness code behind optional, off by default modules.

How can we detect what the admin wants?

Volker

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