Re: [PATCH] libmount: handle btrfs default subvolume mount

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:45:29PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:37:13PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > David also wrote btrfs_get_default_subvolume_path(), but then we found,
> > > that there is probably better to use subvolid and path saved in
> > > procinfo:
> > 
> > Do you mean /proc/self/mountinfo ?
> > 
> > > 
> > > + The tab.c patch would be much smaller and straightforward.
> > > - Kernel evaluates it when creating procinfo entries, this would
> > >   duplicate it.
> > > x Both subvol and subvolid in procinfo were introduced together in the
> > >   mainline kernel, and btrfs_get_default_subvolume_path() needs more
> > >   ioctl() calls.
> > 
> > No sure if I follow.
> 
> Read it and the patch again, and now it makes sense. Yes, the ioctl and 
> subvolid= from mountinfo seems better than dependence on libbtrfs.

Also because util-linux is a build dependency for btrfs-progs.
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