Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:00 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> for example:
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>         fd = fsopen("ext4", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
>         fsconfig(fd, fsconfig_blockdev, "dev.data", "/dev/sda1", ...);
>         fsconfig(fd, fsconfig_blockdev, "dev.journal", "/dev/sda2", ...);

Ok, that looks good to me. It also avoids the parsing issue with using
an interface like "write()", where the expectation is that you can
append things etc.

              Linus