On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 1:07 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Al, Miklós, > > Can we consider replacing the "insert cursor" approach we're currently > using for proc files to scan the current namespace's mount list[1] with > something that uses an xarray of mounts indexed by mnt_id? > > This has some advantages: > > (1) It's simpler. We don't need to insert dummy mount objects as > bookmarks into the mount list and code that's walking the list doesn't > have to carefully step over them. > > (2) We can use the file position to represent the mnt_id and can jump to > it directly - ie. using seek() to jump to a mount object by its ID. What happens if the mount at the current position is removed? Thanks, Miklos
