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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:56:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFA6E2D.7010709@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091111074542.GB25132@elte.hu>

On 11/11/2009 02:45 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jeff Garzik<jeff@garzik.org>  wrote:
>
>> On 11/11/2009 01:34 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com>   wrote:
>>>> Maybe this is enough for POWERTOP, however for general use, the dirty
>>>> type(data/metadata) and inode number may be valuable to some users?
>>>
>>> what can a user do with an inode number????
>>
>> Inode numbers have always been visible to userspace...  IIRC, tar(1)
>> uses the st_ino member of struct stat to detect hard links in certain
>> cases.  ls(1) displays inode numbers with -i, find(1) looks for them
>> with -inum, ...
>
> Without an inode->vfs-name lookup/matching service it's of limited
> utility

Look in the quoted text for one such service...  :)

	Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26  5:53 [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-26  6:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-26  6:55   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-27 16:01 ` Jason Baron
2009-11-11  2:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-11-11  6:34   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11  6:40     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-11-11  7:42     ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-11  7:45       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11  7:56         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-11-11 11:15           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11 17:27         ` Kok, Auke
2009-11-11 18:29         ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-11 18:56           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-12  2:15           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 16:19       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 23:10         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-11-11 23:37           ` Kok, Auke
2009-11-12  7:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-20 10:43               ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-20 10:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-20 14:45                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-20 16:05                   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 16:45                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11  2:33 ` Li Zefan
2009-11-15 19:00   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-16  0:56     ` Li Zefan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-26 20:56 Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-28 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-28 18:43   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-29  1:41     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29  4:54       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-29  5:15         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29 14:21           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-11-29 14:41             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-11-29 16:31               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-11-30  0:37             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29  3:53     ` Nick Piggin

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