Re: file handle in statx (was: Re: How to cope with subvolumes and snapshots on muti-user systems?)

Kent Overstreet
2023-12-15T00:36:40Z

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 09:47:47AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 08:46:54AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 16:35, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Other poeple have been finding ways to contribute to the technical
> > > > > discussion; just calling things "ugly and broken" does not.
> > > >
> > > > Kent, calm down please. We call things "ugly and broken" all the
> > > > time. That's just an opinion, you are free to argue it, and no need
> > > > to take it personally.
> > >
> > > But maybe we shouldn't. Maybe we should focus on saying what, exactly,
> > > is unpleasant to look at and way. Or what exactly causes poor
> > > funcationality.
> >
> > I said it's "ugly" and I doubted it's value. I didn't call it "broken".
> > And I've been supportive of the other parts. Yet everyone seems fine
> > with having this spiral out of control to the point where I'm being
> > called a dick.
> >
> > You hade a privat discussion on the bcachefs mailing list and it seems
> > you expected to show up here with a complete interface that we just all
> > pick up and merge even though this is a multi-year longstanding
> > argument.
>
> I thought I was still having that private discussion on the bcachefs
> mailing list. I didn't realise that fsdevel had been added.

I only thought that the discussion had gotten to the point where we had
something concrete enough to start to circulate more widely.

I wonder if some introspection could go into why this has been a
multi-year longstanding argument.