linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH] Filesystem Journal Notifications

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Date:	Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:51:42 +0100
From:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	Abhijit Paithankar <apaithan@...mai.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Filesystem Journal Notifications

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> That assumes agreement between the applications that are using this
> interface.  It isn't at all desirable that applications have to know
> the "mountpoint" of the filesystem in order to use inotify, and in
> some cases (e.g. bind mount in a new namespace) there isn't even access
> to the root inode.

A filesystem's root inode needn't be mounted at all.

You don't need a new namespace - bind mount is enough by itself.

It has me wondering - how can an application even tell when it has the
root inode of a filesystem?  You can't tell from /etc/mtab or
/proc/mounts, nor from traversing the filesystem itself - except for
filesystems where you know the expected inode number of the root inode.

-- Jamie
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