linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Aufs2 #2 21/28] aufs sysfs entries

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Message-ID: <20090317042210.GA17533@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:22:10 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Aufs2 #2 21/28] aufs sysfs entries

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:05:47PM +0900, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp wrote:
> 
> Greg KH:
> > Which should be MAX_PATH, right?  Is that ever bigger than PAGE_SIZE?
> 
> Is the limit of PATH_MAX applied to the absolute path too?
> 
> 
> > What specifically are you trying to show here?
> 
> - the abs path of a directory which is a member of a union.
> - the abs path of a xino file which is a regular file maintained by
>   aufs.

And what do people do with this information?  Is it just debugging
stuff?  If so, please put it in debugfs, not sysfs.

thanks,

greg k-h
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