From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] fsconfig: rename FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE to FSCONFIG_CMD_OBTAIN
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:11:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17547.1537542706@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180920151214.15484-7-mszeredi@redhat.com>
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> wrote:
> The old name strongly implies that a new superblock will be created from
> the fs_context. This is not true: filesystems are free to retuse an
> existing superblock and return that (for good reason).
Kind of like open(O_CREAT) only ever creates files, right;-)
Actually, FSCONFIG_CMD_OPEN might be a better name.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-21 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-20 15:12 [PATCH 0/6] mount-api: fixes and cleanups Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] selinux: fold superblock_doinit() into only caller Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 14:41 ` David Howells
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] vfs_submount: use SB_SUBMOUNT instead of MS_SUBMOUNT Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 14:45 ` David Howells
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] mount: fix regression in setting "subtype" from legacy API Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 14:52 ` David Howells
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] fsconfig: parse "subtype" param for old internal API Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 14:56 ` David Howells
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] fsmount: do not use legacy MS_ flags Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 15:07 ` David Howells
2018-09-21 15:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 15:37 ` David Howells
2018-09-21 15:54 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-21 16:52 ` David Howells
2018-09-22 13:21 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-22 15:48 ` David Howells
2018-09-22 16:14 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-23 22:45 ` David Howells
2018-09-23 23:01 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-24 6:50 ` David Howells
2018-09-24 9:47 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-24 12:37 ` David Howells
2018-09-24 13:18 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] fsconfig: rename FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE to FSCONFIG_CMD_OBTAIN Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 15:11 ` David Howells [this message]
2018-09-21 15:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 16:44 ` [PATCH 0/6] mount-api: fixes and cleanups David Howells
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