Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] 9pfs: local: metadata file for the VirtFS root

2017-05-09 Thread Greg Kurz
On Fri, 5 May 2017 12:11:14 -0500 Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/05/2017 09:37 AM, Greg Kurz wrote: > > When using the mapped-file security, credentials are stored in a metadata > > directory located in the parent directory. This is okay for all paths with > > the notable exception of the root path, s

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] 9pfs: local: metadata file for the VirtFS root

2017-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/05/2017 09:37 AM, Greg Kurz wrote: > When using the mapped-file security, credentials are stored in a metadata > directory located in the parent directory. This is okay for all paths with > the notable exception of the root path, since we don't want and probably > can't create a metadata dire

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] 9pfs: local: metadata file for the VirtFS root

2017-05-05 Thread Greg Kurz
When using the mapped-file security, credentials are stored in a metadata directory located in the parent directory. This is okay for all paths with the notable exception of the root path, since we don't want and probably can't create a metadata directory above the virtfs directory on the host. Th