Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 2020 16:14:24 +0200 | From | Karel Zak <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/13] VFS: Filesystem information [ver #19] |
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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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