Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:09:36 -0700 | Subject | Re: file metadata via fs API (was: [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information) |
| |
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:05 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Except that you suddenly see non-directory dentries get children. > And a lot of dcache-related logics needs to be changed if that > becomes possible.
Yeah, I think you'd basically need to associate a (dynamic) mount-point to that path when you start doing O_ALT. Or something.
And it might not be reasonably implementable. I just think that as _interface_ it's unambiguous and fairly clean, and if Miklos can implement something like that, I think it would be maintainable.
No?
Linus
| |