On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 18:30 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 10/3/19 5:25 AM, Ian Kent wrote: > > This patch series add support to xfs for the new kernel mount API > > as described in the LWN article at https://lwn.net/Articles/780267/ > > . > > > > In the article there's a lengthy description of the reasons for > > adopting the API and problems expected to be resolved by using it. > > > > The series has been applied to the repository located at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git, and built and > > some simple tests run on it along with the generic xfstests. > > > > Other things that continue to cause me concern: > > > > - Message logging. > > ... > > Haven't actually reviewed yet, but just playing with it, I noticed an > oddity; > > # mount -o loop,allocsize=abc fsfile mnt > > fails as expected, but with no dmesg to be found. Is that a known > behavior? That's interesting. I'll see if I can work out what path that is taking though the kernel, don't think it's getting to the xfs options handling. > > -Eric
