Andrew Price <anpr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Umm... What about the fs_context struct? Why can't that be used to
> > propagate the bdev pointer? That's kind of what it's for...
>
> It would be useful to have the block device pointer in the fs_context since so
> many of the filesystems use them and it makes for an obvious API migration.
That may be so. I've argued also that we should put a net-namespace pointer
in there, but Al disagreed.
However, I think most bdev-based filesystems use mount_bdev() which gfs2 does
not.
> > It looks like you should be able to stash the bdev pointer in the gfs2_args
> > struct.
>
> Sure, but since the new API is young I figured I'd hold off until we had this
> conversation because adding it to the fs_context might be agreeable :)
Note that I have patches to kill of sget_userns() and sget() will hopefully
soon follow. Have a look at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=mount-api-viro
David
