linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/35] Unionfs: Common file operations

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Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 23:16:59 -0500
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	"Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@...sunysb.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org,
	hch@...radead.org, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, mhalcrow@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/35] Unionfs: Common file operations

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:02:10PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Dec 4 2006 07:30, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> >+long unionfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> >+{
> >+	long err;
> >+
> >+	if ((err = unionfs_file_revalidate(file, 1)))
> >+		goto out;
> >+
> >+	/* check if asked for local commands */
> >+	switch (cmd) {
> >+		case UNIONFS_IOCTL_INCGEN:
> >+			/* Increment the superblock generation count */
> >+			err = -EACCES;
> >+			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> >+				goto out;
> >+			err = unionfs_ioctl_incgen(file, cmd, arg);
> >+			break;
> >+
> >+		case UNIONFS_IOCTL_QUERYFILE:
> >+			/* Return list of branches containing the given file */
> >+			err = unionfs_ioctl_queryfile(file, cmd, arg);
> >+			break;
> >+
> >+		default:
> >+			/* pass the ioctl down */
> >+			err = do_ioctl(file, cmd, arg);
> >+			break;
> >+	}
> >+
> >+out:
> >+	return err;
> >+}
> 
> 
> I think there was an ioctl for files to find out where a particular
> file lives on disk.

That's the UNIONFS_IOCTL_QUERYFILE case.

> Do you think unionfs should handle it and return
> something more or less meaningful?

It is a very useful functionality for any stackable filesystem which may
store files on one of several branches. Do I think that it should be
factored out of Unionfs into fsstack or similar? Not at the moment. If there
seems to be a need for it, then I'd gladly move it out of Unionfs, but until
then I don't see a reason to do anything special.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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