Re: GFS2 Filesystem [0/16]

[Christoph Hellwig]

>  b) The .gfs2_admin directory exposes the internal files that GFS uses
>     to store various bits of file system related information. This means
>     that we've been able to remove virtually all the ioctl() calls from
>     GFS2. There is one ioctl() call left which relates to
>     getting/setting GFS2 specific flags on files. The various GFS2 tools
>     will be updated in due course to use this new interface.

Without even looking at the code a strong NACK here.  This is polluting
the namespace which is not acceptable.  Please implement a second
filesystem type gfsmeta to do this kind of admin work.  Search for ext2meta
which did something similar.  Or use a completely different approach,
I'd need to look at the actual functionality provided to give a better
advice, but currently I'm lacking the time for that.

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