[RFC PATCH RESEND] vfs_ceph: allow mounting a named filesystem

[Jeff Layton]

On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 10:47 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:31:35AM -0400, Jeff Layton via samba-technical wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 17:54 +0100, David Disseldorp wrote:
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:29:50 -0400, Jeff Layton via samba-technical wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >  docs-xml/manpages/vfs_ceph.8.xml | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > >  source3/modules/vfs_ceph.c       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > >  source3/wscript                  |  6 ++++++
> > > >  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > I had a few spare cycles today and went ahead and plumbed in this
> > > > support since Marco had asked about it on the ceph-users list.
> > > > 
> > > > This builds but is otherwise untested. If it looks reasonable, I can
> > > > clean it up and test it out in the near future.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the patch!
> > > Give that the cmount context may be reused between shares, this would
> > > be problematic if the shares are configured with differing fsnames. That
> > > said, I think we have the same issue with config_file / user_id, so I
> > > don't think it's a showstopper.
> > > Otherwise, the change looks reasonable.
> > > 
> > > Cheers, David
> > 
> > Oof, yeah...I had forgotten that cmount is global. Ideally we'd have
> > some sort of pool of cmounts or create one on a per-service basis.
> > 
> > Is there some sort of per-share object in the vfs plugin interface off
> > which you could hang a cmount?
> 
> Yes, you can hang a private pointer off the connection (per share
> instance) handle.

I assume you mean the connection_struct? Which field is the private
pointer?

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Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>