Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 3

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 17:34:02 EST


Christoph Hellwig writes:
> in the filesystem path especially relayfs_create_entry and the functions
> called by it seem overly complex, probably because copying from ramfs
> which allows namespace operations from userland. See the totally untested
> code below for how it could be done more cleanly.

Thanks, I'll do some simplification as you suggest.

>
> What I really dislike is the code for automatically creating complex
> hiearchies. What kinds of hierachies does LTT use? It shouldn't be
> more than subsystem/{stream1, stream2, ..., streamN}, right? In that
> case I think we could leave it to the user to take of that himself.
>

Yeah, I was debating whether to keep that code or just export a
creat_subdir() function instead, which I think I'll do after all. ltt
doesn't really doesn't need much of a hierarchy beyond ltt/ or maybe
one more deep e.g. ltt/trace ltt/flight, and I doubt many other
applications would either.

Tom


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