Re: [PATCH 00/17] VFS: Filesystem information and notifications [ver #17]

Al Viro
2020-02-28T17:15:21Z

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 05:24:23PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 1:27 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > > Superblocks and mounts could get enumerated by a unique identifier.
> > > mnt_id seems to be good for mounts, s_dev may or may not be good for
> > > superblock, but s_id (as introduced in this patchset) could be used
> > > instead.
> >
> > So what would the sysfs tree look like with this?
>
> For a start something like this:
>
> mounts/$MOUNT_ID/
> parent -> ../$PARENT_ID
> super -> ../../supers/$SUPER_ID
> root: path from mount root to fs root (could be optional as usually
> they are the same)
> mountpoint -> $MOUNTPOINT
> flags: mount flags
> propagation: mount propagation
> children/$CHILD_ID -> ../../$CHILD_ID
>
> supers/$SUPER_ID/
> type: fstype
> source: mount source (devname)
> options: csv of mount options

Oh, wonderful. So let me see if I got it right - any namespace operation
can create/destroy/move around an arbitrary amount of sysfs objects.
Better yet, we suddenly have to express the lifetime rules for struct mount
and struct superblock in terms of struct device garbage.

I'm less than thrilled by the entire fsinfo circus, but this really takes
the cake.

In case it needs to be spelled out: NAK.