Added a few more CCs. On Tue 16-03-21 12:29:16, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 04-03-21 13:35:38, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > Current quotactl syscall uses a path to a block device to specify the > > filesystem to work on which makes it unsuitable for filesystems that > > do not have a block device. This series adds a new syscall quotactl_path() > > which replaces the path to the block device with a mountpath, but otherwise > > behaves like original quotactl. > > > > This is done to add quota support to UBIFS. UBIFS quota support has been > > posted several times with different approaches to put the mountpath into > > the existing quotactl() syscall until it has been suggested to make it a > > new syscall instead, so here it is. > > > > I'm not posting the full UBIFS quota series here as it remains unchanged > > and I'd like to get feedback to the new syscall first. For those interested > > the most recent series can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/810463/ > > Thanks. I've merged the two patches into my tree and will push them to > Linus for the next merge window. So there are some people at LWN whining that quotactl_path() has no dirfd and flags arguments for specifying the target. Somewhat late in the game but since there's no major release with the syscall and no userspace using it, I think we could still change that. What do you think? What they suggest does make some sense. But then, rather then supporting API for million-and-one ways in which I may wish to lookup a fs object, won't it be better to just pass 'fd' in the new syscall (it may well be just O_PATH fd AFAICT) and be done with that? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
