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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:57:01 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> To: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, hch@...radead.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, adilger@....com, corbet@....net, serue@...ibm.com, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, sfrench@...ibm.com, philippe.deniel@....FR, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -V14 0/11] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:57:26PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > The trouble with /proc/mounts is that it is somewhat clumsy to parse > (remember to handle \0ctal escapes) and doesn't include major/minor number > which is the primary key for identifying filesystems in Linux > (see /sys/class/bdi/MAJOR:MINOR which is e.g. the best place to configure > read-ahead for a filesystem). > > So /proc/mounts could work (and would probably be better than a new syscall) > but I would really rather see something sane in /sys for > inspecting/configuring filesystems (rather than each filesystem doing their > own independent thing in /sys/fs). If you use sys or proc, is it possible to get the uuid from a file descriptor or pathname without races? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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