Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:28 PM Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Do, 02.04.20 17:22, Miklos Szeredi (miklos@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 4:36 PM Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > You appear to be thinking about the "udisks" project or so?
> >
> > Probably.
> >
> > The real question is: is there a sane way to filter mount
> > notifications so that systemd receives only those which it is
> > interested in, rather than the tens of thousands that for example
> > autofs is managing and has nothing to do with systemd?
>
> systemd cares about all mount points in PID1's mount namespace.
>
> The fact that mount tables can grow large is why we want something
> better than constantly reparsing the whole /proc/self/mountinfo. But
> filtering subsets of that is something we don't really care about.

I can accept that, but you haven't given a reason why that's so.

What does it do with the fact that an automount point was crossed, for
example?  How does that affect the operation of systemd?

Thanks,
Miklos



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