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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: add generic uevent infrastructure
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:20:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131118162045.GA3268@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384785520-607-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org>

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 06:38:40PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> *Purpose:
> It is reasonable to annaunce fs related events via uevent infrastructure.
> This patch implement only ext4'th part, but IMHO this should be usefull for
> any generic filesystem.

It does indeed look very generic.  How about you try to redo it to sit
at the VFS level?

Also Jan Kara has done quota netlink notifications a while ago, which
fit into the same sort of niche.


       reply	other threads:[~2013-11-18 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1384785520-607-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org>
2013-11-18 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-11-19  1:36   ` [PATCH] ext4: add generic uevent infrastructure Dave Chinner
2013-11-19  9:35     ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-11-19 10:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-19 11:17       ` Jan Kara

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