Re: [PATCH 2/2] f2fs: Add f2fs stats to sysfs

Chao Yu
2019-10-25T08:31:06Z

On 2019/10/25 11:51, Hridya Valsaraju wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:26 AM Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2019/10/24 5:48, Hridya Valsaraju wrote:
>>> Currently f2fs stats are only available from /d/f2fs/status. This patch
>>> adds some of the f2fs stats to sysfs so that they are accessible even
>>> when debugfs is not mounted.
>>
>> Why don't we mount debugfs first?
>
> Thank you for taking a look at the patch Chao. We will not be mounting
> debugfs for security reasons.

Hi, Hridya,

May I ask is there any use case for those new entries?

So many sysfs entries exist, if there is real use case, how about backuping
entire /d/f2fs/status entry into /proc/fs/f2fs/<dev>/ directory rather than
adding some of stats as a single entry in sysfs directory?

Thanks,

>
> Regards,
> Hridya
>
>>
>> Thanks,
> .
>