Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

[Nikita Danilov]

Miklos Szeredi writes:
 > 
 > > /sys/fs used to exist for for some. Moreover, /sys/fs/foofs/ was added
 > > automagically when foofs file system type was registered. But it was
 > > ultimately removed, because nobody took the time to fix all races
 > > between accessing /sys/fs/foofs/gadget and
 > > umount/filesystem-module-unloading. 
 > 
 > I don't see why this would be any harder for filesystem code than for
 > other types of drivers.  Maybe someone can enlighten me.
 > 
 > Anyway, I can try to clean it up: remove all the racy bits and keep
 > what I need (which is mainly just the /sys/fs directory).  Where can I
 > find the most recent version of this?

It was removed at 2003.06.05, by "[fs] Remove kobject support for
filesystems" change-set (mochel@xxxxxxxx), you can extract patch from
bitkeeper.

Reiser4 adds /sys/fs and /sys/fs/reiser4 manually (see kattr.[ch] in its
sources), and uses

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/broken-out/reiser4-kobject-umount-race.patch
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/broken-out/reiser4-kobject-umount-race-cleanup.patch

to avoid _some_ races (with umount), but these patches provide no
protection against races with module unloading.

 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Miklos

Nikita.
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