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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/13] VFS: Filesystem information [ver #19]
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:38:20AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> I prefer the system call interface and I'm not offering justification
> for that other than a general dislike (and on occasion outright
> frustration) of pretty much every proc implementation I have had to
> look at.

Frankly, I'm modest, what about to have both interfaces in kernel --
fsinfo() as well mountfs? It's nothing unusual for example for block
devices to have attribute accessible by /sys as well as by ioctl().

I can imagine that for complex task or performance sensitive tasks
it's better to use fsinfo(), but in another simple use-cases (for
example to convert mountpoint to device name in shell) is better to
read /proc/.../<atrtr>.

Karel

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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com

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