Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:56:35AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I think we are approaching this from the wrong end.   Let's just
> ignore all of the proposed interfaces for now and only concentrate on
> what this will be used for.
> 
> Start with a set of use cases by all interested parties.  E.g.
> 
>  - systemd wants to keep track attached mounts in a namespace, as well
> as new detached mounts created by fsmount()
> 
>  - systemd need to keep information (such as parent, children, mount
> flags, fs options, etc) up to date on any change of topology or
> attributes.
> 
>  - util linux needs to display the topology and state of mounts in the
> system that corresponds to a consistent state that set of mounts

  - like systemd we also need in mount/umount to query one mountpoint
  rather than parse all /proc/self/mountinfo

 Karel

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