Re: [GIT PULL] vfs dio
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jan 20 2025 - 14:50:46 EST
On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 at 11:38, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It is heavily used nowadays though because there's a few
> additional bits in there that don't require calling into filesystems
> but are heavily used.
By "heavily used" you mean "there is probably a 1:1000 ratio between
statx:stat in reality".
Those "few additional bits" are all very specialized. No normal
application cares about things like "mount ID" or subvolume data. I
can't imagine what other fields you think are so important.
Linus