linux-kernel - Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

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Message-ID: <20080117033558.GY27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:35:58 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:09:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:58:06 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Jan 17 2008 00:43, Karel Zak wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> Seems like a plain bad idea to me.  There will be any number of home-made
> > >> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
> > >
> > > So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2  ;-)
> > 
> > Was not it like "don't use /proc for new things"?
> 
> Well yeah.  If we're going to do a brand new mechanism to expose
> per-mount data then we should hunker down and get it right.

Which automatically means "no sysfs".  We are NOT converting vfsmounts
to kobject-based lifetime rules.
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