From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fanotify support for btrfs sub-volumes
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 04:25:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUjbPK0oizILoUDl@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d08a205-b2c5-4276-b271-088facc142ea@suse.com>
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 06:48:11PM +1030, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> > st_dev has only been very historically about treating something as
> > a device. For userspae the most important part is that it designates
> > a separate domain for inode numbers. And that's something that's simply
> > broken in btrfs.
>
> In fact, I'm not sure if the "treating something as a device" thing is even
> correct long before btrfs.
It never really has been. There's just two APIs that ever did this,
ustat and the old quotactl. Both have been deprecated a long time ago
and never hid wide use.
> For example, for an EXT4 fs with external log device. Thankfully it's still
> more or less obvious we would use the device number of the main fs, not the
> log device, but we already had such examples.
More relevant (as the log device never has persistent data) is the XFS
realtime device.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-06 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-25 13:50 [PATCH 0/3] fanotify support for btrfs sub-volumes Amir Goldstein
2023-10-25 13:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] fs: define a new super operation to get fsid Amir Goldstein
2023-10-25 13:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] btrfs: implement " Amir Goldstein
2023-10-25 13:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] fanotify: support reporting events with fid on btrfs sub-volumes Amir Goldstein
2023-10-25 15:34 ` [PATCH 0/3] fanotify support for " Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-25 17:04 ` Jan Kara
2023-10-27 5:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-27 10:58 ` Jan Kara
2023-10-25 21:06 ` Josef Bacik
2023-10-25 23:02 ` Qu Wenruo
2023-10-26 5:49 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-10-27 5:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-27 13:17 ` Josef Bacik
2023-10-27 13:47 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-10-28 5:57 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-10-30 13:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-31 12:14 ` Christian Brauner
2023-10-31 12:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-31 12:50 ` Christian Brauner
2023-10-31 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-01 0:03 ` Qu Wenruo
2023-11-03 14:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-01 8:16 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-01 8:41 ` Qu Wenruo
2023-11-01 9:52 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-02 5:13 ` Josef Bacik
2023-11-02 8:53 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-11-02 9:48 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-02 12:34 ` Josef Bacik
2023-11-02 17:07 ` David Sterba
2023-11-02 20:32 ` Josef Bacik
2023-11-03 6:56 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-03 13:52 ` Josef Bacik
2023-11-02 11:07 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-03 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-03 15:47 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06 8:18 ` Qu Wenruo
2023-11-06 9:56 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 12:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-11-06 10:03 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 10:41 ` Qu Wenruo
2023-11-06 10:59 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 12:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06 13:05 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-07 8:58 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-08 7:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-08 8:09 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-08 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-08 8:22 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-08 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-08 15:57 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06 13:47 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 17:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06 22:42 ` Josef Bacik
2023-11-07 9:06 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-08 7:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-08 8:27 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-08 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-08 16:16 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-08 16:20 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-09 6:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-09 9:07 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-09 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-10 9:33 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-10 10:31 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-11-09 6:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-08 7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-08 11:08 ` Jan Kara
2023-11-08 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06 9:03 ` Jan Kara
2023-11-06 9:52 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-06 12:22 ` Jan Kara
2023-11-03 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-03 14:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-25 17:17 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-10-25 18:02 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-10-26 12:17 ` Jan Kara
2023-10-26 12:36 ` Amir Goldstein
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