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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-09 15:48:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-09 15:48:24 -0700
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Merge tag 'fuse-update-5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: - Fix a rare deadlock in virtiofs - Fix st_blocks in writeback cache mode - Fix wrong checks in splice move causing spurious warnings - Fix a race between a GETATTR request and a FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_INODE notification - Use rb-tree instead of linear search for pages currently under writeout by userspace - Fix copy_file_range() inconsistencies * tag 'fuse-update-5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: fuse: copy_file_range should truncate cache fuse: fix copy_file_range cache issues fuse: optimize writepages search fuse: update attr_version counter on fuse_notify_inval_inode() fuse: don't check refcount after stealing page fuse: fix weird page warning fuse: use dump_page virtiofs: do not use fuse_fill_super_common() for device installation fuse: always allow query of st_dev fuse: always flush dirty data on close(2) fuse: invalidate inode attr in writeback cache mode fuse: Update stale comment in queue_interrupt() fuse: BUG_ON correction in fuse_dev_splice_write() virtiofs: Add mount option and atime behavior to the doc virtiofs: schedule blocking async replies in separate worker
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@@ -39,6 +39,20 @@ Mount file system with tag ``myfs`` on ``/mnt``:
Please see https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ for details on how to configure QEMU
and the virtiofsd daemon.
+Mount options
+-------------
+
+virtiofs supports general VFS mount options, for example, remount,
+ro, rw, context, etc. It also supports FUSE mount options.
+
+atime behavior
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The atime-related mount options, for example, noatime, strictatime,
+are ignored. The atime behavior for virtiofs is the same as the
+underlying filesystem of the directory that has been exported
+on the host.
+
Internals
=========
Since the virtio-fs device uses the FUSE protocol for file system requests, the