On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 08:39:07AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Hi Ted, > > Whilst we were at Vault, I asked you if there was any live ext4 information > that it could be useful to export through fsinfo(). I've implemented a patch > that exports six superblock timestamps: > > FSINFO_ATTR_EXT4_TIMESTAMPS: > mkfs : 2016-02-26 00:37:03 > mount : 2020-03-31 21:57:30 > write : 2020-03-31 21:57:28 > fsck : 2018-12-17 23:32:45 > 1st-err : - > last-err: - > > but is there anything else that could be of interest? The entire superblock as a binary blob? :) This way we can begin moving dumpe2fs/tune2fs away from reading the raw disk on live filesystems. (I'd make the same noises about xfs, but less urgently since we already have ioctls for that purpose.) --D > > Thanks, > David >
