linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/17] VFS: Implement handling for pathless pioctls

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:26:37 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Wang Lei <wang840925@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/17] VFS: Implement handling for pathless pioctls

Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com> wrote:

> Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to create a virtual device, open the
> mountpoint, or do _something_ that associates these calls with AFS
> directly instead of having the kernel magically route the call to a
> specific filesystem?

Ummm...  You mean like mkdir, rmdir, symlink, readlink, mknod, creat, open,
unlink, etc. aren't magically routed by the kernel to a specific filesystem
based on the pathname?

The exception to that is pathless pioctls which are most annoying and require
special handling and foreknowledge whatever.

David
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