From 8eecd1c2e5bc73d33f3a544751305679dbf88eb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)" Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:04:50 -0300 Subject: cifs: Add support for root file systems Introduce a new CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT option to handle root file systems over a SMB share. In order to mount the root file system during the init process, make cifs.ko perform non-blocking socket operations while mounting and accessing it. Cc: Steve French Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) Signed-off-by: Steve French --- Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 97 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0fa1a2c36a40 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +Mounting root file system via SMB (cifs.ko) +=========================================== + +Written 2019 by Paulo Alcantara +Written 2019 by Aurelien Aptel + +The CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT option enables experimental root file system +support over the SMB protocol via cifs.ko. + +It introduces a new kernel command-line option called 'cifsroot=' +which will tell the kernel to mount the root file system over the +network by utilizing SMB or CIFS protocol. + +In order to mount, the network stack will also need to be set up by +using 'ip=' config option. For more details, see +Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + +A CIFS root mount currently requires the use of SMB1+UNIX Extensions +which is only supported by the Samba server. SMB1 is the older +deprecated version of the protocol but it has been extended to support +POSIX features (See [1]). The equivalent extensions for the newer +recommended version of the protocol (SMB3) have not been fully +implemented yet which means SMB3 doesn't support some required POSIX +file system objects (e.g. block devices, pipes, sockets). + +As a result, a CIFS root will default to SMB1 for now but the version +to use can nonetheless be changed via the 'vers=' mount option. This +default will change once the SMB3 POSIX extensions are fully +implemented. + +Server configuration +==================== + +To enable SMB1+UNIX extensions you will need to set these global +settings in Samba smb.conf: + + [global] + server min protocol = NT1 + unix extension = yes # default + +Kernel command line +=================== + +root=/dev/cifs + +This is just a virtual device that basically tells the kernel to mount +the root file system via SMB protocol. + +cifsroot=///[,options] + +Enables the kernel to mount the root file system via SMB that are +located in the and specified in this option. + +The default mount options are set in fs/cifs/cifsroot.c. + +server-ip + IPv4 address of the server. + +share + Path to SMB share (rootfs). + +options + Optional mount options. For more information, see mount.cifs(8). + +Examples +======== + +Export root file system as a Samba share in smb.conf file. + +... +[linux] + path = /path/to/rootfs + read only = no + guest ok = yes + force user = root + force group = root + browseable = yes + writeable = yes + admin users = root + public = yes + create mask = 0777 + directory mask = 0777 +... + +Restart smb service. + +# systemctl restart smb + +Test it under QEMU on a kernel built with CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT and +CONFIG_IP_PNP options enabled. + +# qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu host -m 1024 \ + -kernel /path/to/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage -nographic \ + -append "root=/dev/cifs rw ip=dhcp cifsroot=//10.0.2.2/linux,username=foo,password=bar console=ttyS0 3" + + +1: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/UNIX_Extensions -- cgit v1.2.3