linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Mount, FS, Block and Keyrings notifications

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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 10:40:11 +0300
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Mount, FS, Block and Keyrings notifications

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 9:45 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > I am interested to know how you envision filesystem notifications would
> > look with this interface.
>
> What sort of events are you thinking of by "filesystem notifications"?  You
> mean things like file changes?

I mean all the events provided by
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/fanotify.7.html

Which was recently (v4.20) extended to support watching a super block
and more recently (v5.1) extended to support watching directory entry
modifications.

Thanks,
Amir.