Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] fuse: caches documentation and testing

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM Luis Henriques <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm (finally!) sending v2 of this patchset.  It tries to document (and add
> a few kselftests) to the different types of caches that are currently in use
> within FUSE.  As I mentioned in v1 the idea for documenting this came from
> Miklos during this year's LSFMM, where he mentioned he would like to see
> caches usage documented before he could merge an initial version of fusex.
>
> This version documents symlinks, attributes, ACLs and readdir caches.  Still
> missing: dentries and data caching.
>
> I'm still sending it as an RFC as I'm still not sure if it fulfils Miklos'
> initial goal.
>
> As usual feedback is welcome, as I'll (slowly) continue looking into other
> cache types.
>
> Major changes since v1:
> - Added more caches to the document
> - Changed tests format to single self-contained binaries
> - Since Amir added a new fuse3-based test, the conversion to fuse3 of the
>   fusectl has minor changes to the Makefile
>   - NOTE: I've kept Amir's Reviewed-by anyway (should I drop it?)

It's fine. I trust your judgement.

Please see Sashiko review comments.

My main concern is with the doc - it's not an easy read
and I would have liked it to be and I found many correctness error
which is not a good sign.

Thanks,
Amir.