From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: file metadata via fs API (was: [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:18:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiPx0UJ6Q1X=azwz32xrSeKnTJcH8enySwuuwnGKkHoPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52483.1597190733@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 5:05 PM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Well, the start of it was my proposal of an fsinfo() system call.
Ugh. Ok, it's that thing.
This all seems *WAY* over-designed - both your fsinfo and Miklos' version.
What's wrong with fstatfs()? All the extra magic metadata seems to not
really be anything people really care about.
What people are actually asking for seems to be some unique mount ID,
and we have 16 bytes of spare information in 'struct statfs64'.
All the other fancy fsinfo stuff seems to be "just because", and like
complete overdesign.
Let's not add system calls just because we can.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-12 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-03 15:27 [GIT PULL] Mount notifications David Howells
2020-08-03 15:49 ` [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information David Howells
2020-08-03 16:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-04 2:15 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-04 14:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 1:33 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-05 8:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 11:13 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-05 8:24 ` file metadata via fs API (was: [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information) Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 13:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 14:08 ` Al Viro
2020-08-11 14:22 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 14:31 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <CAAgocE07=vVKpQhG+rjEGO=NEBKZ02gjg4TRPxECAc+RKrzn=Q@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-11 14:36 ` Al Viro
2020-08-11 14:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 14:42 ` Al Viro
2020-08-11 14:47 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 15:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-11 15:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-11 18:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 19:31 ` Lennart Poettering
2020-08-11 19:50 ` Christian Brauner
2020-08-11 19:39 ` Christian Brauner
2020-08-12 0:53 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-11 15:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-11 16:17 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-08-11 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-11 20:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 20:36 ` Jann Horn
2020-08-11 20:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-11 21:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-11 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-12 7:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 14:39 ` Al Viro
2020-08-12 14:46 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 15:08 ` Al Viro
2020-08-12 15:13 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 16:33 ` Al Viro
2020-08-12 17:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 17:39 ` Al Viro
2020-08-12 18:33 ` Al Viro
2020-08-12 21:30 ` Al Viro
2020-08-18 9:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-18 9:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 15:22 ` David Howells
2020-08-11 21:20 ` Al Viro
2020-08-11 21:35 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-08-11 16:05 ` Al Viro
2020-08-11 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-11 16:39 ` Al Viro
2020-08-12 10:14 ` Karel Zak
2020-08-12 13:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 13:33 ` David Howells
2020-08-12 13:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 0:05 ` David Howells
2020-08-12 7:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 8:29 ` David Howells
2020-08-12 8:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 9:43 ` file metadata via fs API Steven Whitehouse
2020-08-12 10:04 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 11:28 ` Karel Zak
2020-08-12 12:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-13 8:52 ` Karel Zak
2020-08-12 13:06 ` David Howells
2020-08-13 1:01 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-12 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-08-12 19:34 ` Steven Whitehouse
2020-08-12 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-13 3:44 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-13 10:36 ` Karel Zak
2020-08-14 7:58 ` Lennart Poettering
2020-08-17 11:32 ` Steven Whitehouse
2020-08-17 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-17 22:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-18 12:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-18 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-18 20:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-18 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 13:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-19 2:29 ` Al Viro
2020-08-13 3:53 ` file metadata via fs API (was: [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information) Jeffrey E Altman
2020-08-14 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-18 15:01 ` Jeffrey E Altman
2020-08-14 8:06 ` Lennart Poettering
2020-08-12 13:54 ` David Howells
2020-08-12 14:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-12 14:23 ` David Howells
2020-08-03 22:48 ` [GIT PULL] Mount notifications Ian Kent
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