Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] fs: allow statmount to fetch the fs_subtype and sb_source

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Thu Nov 14 2024 - 08:37:21 EST


On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 12:56, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> What I'm more worried about is that watching the whole system
> for new mounts is going to be somewhat cumbersome when all you can do is to
> watch new mounts attached under an existing mount / filesystem.

We don't even know if there's a use case for that. I think it would
make sense to think about it when/if such a use case emerges. The
inode notification interfaces went through that evolution too, no?

Thanks,
Miklos