Re: [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE

[Dave Chinner]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 01.12.14 01:41, Richard Weinberger (richard@xxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > CC'ing systemd folks.
> > 
> > Lennart, can you please explain why you need CONFIG_FHANDLE for systemd?
> > Maybe I'm reading the source horrible wrong.
> 
> For two usecases:
> 
> a) Being able to detect if something is a mount point. The traditional
>    way to do this is by stat()ing the dir in question and its parent
>    and comparing st_dev. That logic is not able to detect bind mounts
>    however, if destination and the place the mount is at are actually
>    on the same file system... Thus we check the mount id too, if we
>    can get our hands on it.

So what you really want in the mount id in st_buf.st_dev, not the
underlying device number. i.e. fstatat(dirfd, path, buf,
AT_MOUNTID)?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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