Re: [PoC 0/7] Kobjectify filesystem

[Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>]

Hi Goldwyn,

On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 21:01 -0500, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
> 
> This is an effort to represent fs structures in terms of kobjects.
> 
> The primary goal of this was to provide a mechanism for the filesystems
> to provide feedback to userspace but grew more than that.
> In case of errors  users may fix errors and could schedule a
> complete filesystem check at a later point of time.
> ENOSPC errors could be automated to delete temporary files
> etc.
> 
> As a implementation example, I have changed ocfs2 to support the change,
> though it is not completely feasible change because of the way ksets are
> represented in kset, but it delivers the idea.
> 
> Taking this forward may reduce the house-keeping tasks such as searching,
> list handling and locking. One example shown here is the super_block
> destruction using kobjects. Since most filesystems do represent their
> structures in sysfs, this would consolidate individual representations
> under the filesystem, hopefully reducing code.
> 
> Let me know what you think about the idea.
> 

You can register any attributes in sysfs. So, what do you suggest
finally? What common scheme for all file systems do you suggest to use?
Suppose, I didn't catch the idea. Did you invent sysfs itself? Could you
describe your vision more clearly? The idea looks obscure right now,
from my point of view.

Thanks,
Vyacheslav Dubeyko.