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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] afs: Add metadata xattrs
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> NAK. Don't overload xattrs with magic behavior just to avoid the need
> to do proper syscalls or ioctls.

How? This has to work on non-files, files you can't open and mountpoints.
You can't do an ioctl() on a file opened O_PATH:

if (unlikely(f->f_flags & O_PATH)) {
f->f_mode = FMODE_PATH;
f->f_op = &empty_fops;
return 0;
}

and you can't specify AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT or AT_NO_FOLLOW to openat(), so ioctl()
is of no use here.

Do you advocate introducing a pioctl() call? Linus was dead-set against that
as I recall.

I could invent a bunch of AFS-specific syscalls, but I'd rather not do that or
I suppose bring my fsinfo() patches up to scratch - but you didn't like those
either.

Note that using xattrs for fs info is not without precedent in Linux - cifs,
for example.

David

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