From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>,
linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org,
Stefan Krueger <stefan.krueger@aei.mpg.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file handle in statx
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:20:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231212152016.GB142380@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e07d2063-1a0b-4527-afca-f6e6e2ecb821@molgen.mpg.de>
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 10:10:23AM +0100, Donald Buczek wrote:
> On 12/12/23 06:53, Dave Chinner wrote:
>
> > So can someone please explain to me why we need to try to re-invent
> > a generic filehandle concept in statx when we already have a
> > have working and widely supported user API that provides exactly
> > this functionality?
>
> name_to_handle_at() is fine, but userspace could profit from being
> able to retrieve the filehandle together with the other metadata in
> a single system call.
Can you say more? What, specifically is the application that would
want to do that, and is it really in such a hot path that it would be
a user-visible improveable, let aloine something that can be actually
be measured?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-12 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-28 7:49 How to cope with subvolumes and snapshots on muti-user systems? Donald Buczek
2023-11-29 21:43 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-11-30 7:35 ` Donald Buczek
2023-11-30 7:39 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-11-30 20:37 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-04 10:47 ` Donald Buczek
2023-12-04 22:45 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-05 21:35 ` Donald Buczek
2023-12-05 22:01 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-07 11:53 ` Donald Buczek
2023-12-08 1:16 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-08 1:37 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-08 2:13 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-08 2:49 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-08 11:34 ` Donald Buczek
2023-12-08 20:02 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-11 22:43 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-11 23:32 ` file handle in statx (was: Re: How to cope with subvolumes and snapshots on muti-user systems?) Kent Overstreet
2023-12-11 23:40 ` David Howells
2023-12-12 20:59 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 22:57 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 23:43 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-13 0:02 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-13 0:14 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-13 22:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2023-12-13 23:24 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-11 23:53 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 0:05 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 0:59 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 1:10 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 2:13 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 2:24 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 9:08 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 5:53 ` Dave Chinner
2023-12-12 6:32 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-12-12 8:56 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 9:10 ` David Howells
2023-12-12 9:23 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 9:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-12-12 9:35 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 9:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-12-12 13:47 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 14:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-12-12 15:24 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 15:28 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 9:46 ` David Howells
2023-12-12 15:16 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 15:29 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 15:35 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 15:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-12-12 15:43 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 15:57 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-12-12 16:08 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 16:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-12-12 16:41 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 21:53 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-13 9:41 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-12 21:46 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-13 9:47 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-13 10:04 ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-14 22:47 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-15 0:36 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 7:03 ` David Howells
2023-12-12 9:10 ` file handle in statx Donald Buczek
2023-12-12 15:20 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2023-12-12 17:15 ` Frank Filz
2023-12-12 17:44 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 18:17 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-12-12 19:18 ` Frank Filz
2023-12-12 20:59 ` Dave Chinner
2023-12-12 21:57 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 22:23 ` Dave Chinner
2023-12-12 22:36 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 22:39 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 23:44 ` Dave Chinner
2023-12-13 0:00 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-13 7:37 ` Donald Buczek
2023-12-13 12:28 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-13 13:48 ` Donald Buczek
2023-12-19 7:41 ` Donald Buczek
2023-12-12 15:21 ` file handle in statx (was: Re: How to cope with subvolumes and snapshots on muti-user systems?) Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 20:48 ` Dave Chinner
2023-12-12 21:23 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12 22:10 ` Dave Chinner
2023-12-12 22:31 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 23:06 ` Dave Chinner
2023-12-12 23:42 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-12-13 0:03 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 22:00 ` NeilBrown
2023-12-12 0:25 ` David Howells
2023-12-13 12:43 ` How to cope with subvolumes and snapshots on muti-user systems? Donald Buczek
2023-11-30 20:36 ` NeilBrown
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