lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [May]   [12]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/2] quota: Add mountpath based quota support
Added a few more CCs.

On Tue 16-03-21 12:29:16, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 04-03-21 13:35:38, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Current quotactl syscall uses a path to a block device to specify the
> > filesystem to work on which makes it unsuitable for filesystems that
> > do not have a block device. This series adds a new syscall quotactl_path()
> > which replaces the path to the block device with a mountpath, but otherwise
> > behaves like original quotactl.
> >
> > This is done to add quota support to UBIFS. UBIFS quota support has been
> > posted several times with different approaches to put the mountpath into
> > the existing quotactl() syscall until it has been suggested to make it a
> > new syscall instead, so here it is.
> >
> > I'm not posting the full UBIFS quota series here as it remains unchanged
> > and I'd like to get feedback to the new syscall first. For those interested
> > the most recent series can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/810463/
>
> Thanks. I've merged the two patches into my tree and will push them to
> Linus for the next merge window.

So there are some people at LWN whining that quotactl_path() has no dirfd
and flags arguments for specifying the target. Somewhat late in the game
but since there's no major release with the syscall and no userspace using
it, I think we could still change that. What do you think? What they
suggest does make some sense. But then, rather then supporting API for
million-and-one ways in which I may wish to lookup a fs object, won't it be
better to just pass 'fd' in the new syscall (it may well be just O_PATH fd
AFAICT) and be done with that?

Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-05-12 13:02    [W:1.155 / U:1.104 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site