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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:59:34 +0000 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, tytso@....edu, khazhy@...gle.com, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...labora.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Superblock Notifications Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com> wrote: > After the two previous RFCs this is an attempt to get the ball spinning > again. > > The problem I'm trying to solve is providing an interface to monitor > filesystem errors. This patchset includes an example implementation of > ext4 error notification. This goes obviously on top of the watch_queue > mechanism. Thanks for picking this up and advancing it. > Regarding the buffer overrun issue that would require fsinfo or another > method to expose counters, I think they can be added at a later date > with no change to what this patch series attempts to do, therefore I'm > proposing we don't wait for fsinfo before getting this merged. That's fine, but anyone wanting to use this will need to be aware that overruns are a problem. David
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