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From: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 0/2] vfs / btrfs: add support for ustat()
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:20:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEg-Je8UCV6kFdXJoyH3B78sraYCXscTmQQiPHjkPvzt5g1Wpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210415182909.GK4332@42.do-not-panic.com>

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 2:29 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 02:17:58PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > There's a lot of larger things that need to
> > be addressed in general to support the volume approach inside file systems
> > that is going to require a lot of work inside of VFS.  If you feel like
> > tackling that work and then wiring up btrfs by all means have at it, but I'm
> > not seeing a urgent need to address this.  Thanks,
>
> That's precisely what I what I want to hear me about. Things like this.
> Would btrfs be the ony user of volumes inside filesystem? Jeff had
> mentioned before this could also allow namespaces per volumes, and this
> might be a desirable feature.
>
> What else?

Wouldn't this be useful for union filesystems like OverlayFS? Or other
filesystems that support nested filesystems like bcachefs?



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      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-16 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-15  2:58 [RFC v3 0/2] vfs / btrfs: add support for ustat() Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-08-15  2:58 ` [RFC v3 1/2] fs/super.c: add new super block sub devices super_block_dev Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-08-15  2:58 ` [RFC v3 2/2] btrfs: use the new VFS super_block_dev Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-08-15  9:29 ` [RFC v3 0/2] vfs / btrfs: add support for ustat() Al Viro
2014-08-17 23:41   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-08-23 22:31   ` Jeff Mahoney
2021-04-15 17:53     ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-04-15 18:17       ` Josef Bacik
2021-04-15 18:29         ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-04-16 17:20           ` Neal Gompa [this message]

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