Re: [PATCH 13/17] watch_queue: Implement mount topology and attribute change notifications [ver #5]

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:18 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > fsinfo() then allows you to retrieve them by path or by mount ID.
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> > Shouldn't the notification interface provide the unique ID?
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> Hmmm...  If I'm going to do that, I have to put the fsinfo-core branch first
> otherwise you can't actually retrieve the unique ID - and thus won't be able
> to make sense of the notification record.  Such a rearrangement might make
> sense anyway since Ian and Karel have been primarily concentrating on fsinfo
> and only more recently started adding notification support.

OTOH mount notification is way smaller and IMO a more mature
interface.  So just picking the unique ID patch into this set might
make sense.

Thanks,
Miklos