Re: file metadata via fs API

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:44 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So please. Can we just make a simple extended statfs() and be done
> with it, instead of this hugely complex thing that does five different
> things with the same interface and makes it really odd as a result?

How do you propose handling variable size attributes, like the list of
fs options?

Otherwise I'm fine with a statx-like interface for querying fs/mount attributes.

Thanks,
Miklos