On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:36:21PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > I certain agree with that. I'd also like to see ENOSPC notifications > as that would obliviate the need for distros like RHEL to ship > systemtap scripts to generate such notifications for admins.... The ENOSPC case would be a natural tag on to Jan's quota notification, and I have a vague memory that someone started implementing it or at least talked about it. > > > Also Jan Kara has done quota netlink notifications a while ago, which > > fit into the same sort of niche. > > The question I'm asking is whether we really want a new interface > for these events? Shouldn't we really try to use an existing > filesystem event interface for generating these events Good quetion, and the quota netlink notifications would be the natural place to tag on at least some of this. > (e.g. > fanotify) rather than adding yet another disjoint filesystem event > interface to the kernel? It needs to be a per-fs interface, and as Dmitry pointed out fanotify is a per-file one. Nevermind thast it's an utterly horrible interface that shouldn't have been merged and really should be disabled in distro kernels.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
