Re: git: 8921216dbee6 - main - nullfs: add -o cache ["mount" not reporting cache vs. nocache status for listed mounts?]

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:02:27 UTC
[I'm picking one cache vs. nocache related message to use
to ask my question.]

Konstantin Belousov <kib_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:44:52 UTC :

> The branch main has been updated by kib:
> 
>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=8921216dbee6884532e22d5347cff4d9ed23e782
> 
> commit 8921216dbee6884532e22d5347cff4d9ed23e782
> Author: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2024-03-08 18:26:02 +0000
> Commit: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2024-03-08 18:44:21 +0000
> 
> nullfs: add -o cache
> 
> to allow overwrite global default if needed.
> 
> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
> MFC after: 1 week
> ---
> sys/fs/nullfs/null_vfsops.c | 15 +++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sys/fs/nullfs/null_vfsops.c b/sys/fs/nullfs/null_vfsops.c
> index 7ee6ce53fbde..63bdcd4788d9 100644
> --- a/sys/fs/nullfs/null_vfsops.c
> +++ b/sys/fs/nullfs/null_vfsops.c
> @@ -205,12 +205,15 @@ nullfs_mount(struct mount *mp)
> MNT_IUNLOCK(mp);
> }
> 
> - xmp->nullm_flags |= NULLM_CACHE;
> - if (!null_cache_vnodes ||
> - vfs_getopt(mp->mnt_optnew, "nocache", NULL, NULL) == 0 ||
> - (xmp->nullm_vfs->mnt_kern_flag & MNTK_NULL_NOCACHE) != 0)
> - xmp->nullm_flags &= ~NULLM_CACHE;
> -
> + if (vfs_getopt(mp->mnt_optnew, "cache", NULL, NULL) == 0) {
> + xmp->nullm_flags |= NULLM_CACHE;
> + } else if (vfs_getopt(mp->mnt_optnew, "nocache", NULL, NULL) == 0) {
> + ;
> + } else if (null_cache_vnodes &&
> + (xmp->nullm_vfs->mnt_kern_flag & MNTK_NULL_NOCACHE) == 0) {
> + xmp->nullm_flags |= NULLM_CACHE;
> + }
> + 
> if ((xmp->nullm_flags & NULLM_CACHE) != 0) {
> vfs_register_for_notification(xmp->nullm_vfs, mp,
> &xmp->notify_node);


Does the mount command report the cache vs. no cache status of the mounts
that it lists?

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2024-March/005690.html

is is recent a report that it does not. A reply mentions that "ignore" vs.
not has a similar status of not being reported:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2024-March/005695.html

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com