linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: add generic uevent infrastructure

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Message-ID: <20131118162045.GA3268@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:20:45 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: add generic uevent infrastructure

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 06:38:40PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> *Purpose:
> It is reasonable to annaunce fs related events via uevent infrastructure.
> This patch implement only ext4'th part, but IMHO this should be usefull for
> any generic filesystem.

It does indeed look very generic.  How about you try to redo it to sit
at the VFS level?

Also Jan Kara has done quota netlink notifications a while ago, which
fit into the same sort of niche.

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