Re: [PATCH 00/17] VFS: Filesystem information and notifications [ver #17]

[Karel Zak]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 05:24:23PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> ned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4
> 
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 1:27 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Superblocks and mounts could get enumerated by a unique identifier.
> > > mnt_id seems to be good for mounts, s_dev may or may not be good for
> > > superblock, but  s_id (as introduced in this patchset) could be used
> > > instead.
> >
> > So what would the sysfs tree look like with this?
> 
> For a start something like this:
> 
> mounts/$MOUNT_ID/
>   parent -> ../$PARENT_ID
>   super -> ../../supers/$SUPER_ID
>   root: path from mount root to fs root (could be optional as usually
> they are the same)
>   mountpoint -> $MOUNTPOINT
>   flags: mount flags
>   propagation: mount propagation
>   children/$CHILD_ID -> ../../$CHILD_ID
> 
>  supers/$SUPER_ID/
>    type: fstype
>    source: mount source (devname)
>    options:

What about use-cases where I have no ID, but I have mountpoint path
(e.g. "umount /foo")?  In this case I have to go to open() + fsinfo()
and then sysfs does not make sense for me, right?

    Karel

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