On 12/12/23 06:53, Dave Chinner wrote: > So can someone please explain to me why we need to try to re-invent > a generic filehandle concept in statx when we already have a > have working and widely supported user API that provides exactly > this functionality?
name_to_handle_at() is fine, but userspace could profit from being able to retrieve the filehandle together with the other metadata in a single system call. One argument regarding stx_vol was that userspace tools, which walk the filesystem tree, might want to avoid to run blindly into snapshots. Additionally, if a volume defines the namespace for a set of unique inode numbers, the tools could continue to use inode numbers just on a per-volume basis. Best Donald > Cheers, > > Dave. -- Donald Buczek [email protected] Tel: +49 30 8413 1433
