Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Apr 2020 11:11:24 +0200 | From | Karel Zak <> | Subject | Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo() |
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 05:25:54PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > fsinfo(2) will never be substantially cheaper than reading and parsing > /mnt/MNT_ID/info. In fact reading a large part of the mount table > using fsinfo(2) will be substantially slower than parsing > /proc/self/mountinfo (this doesn't actually do the parsing but that > would add a very small amount of overhead):
I think nobody wants to use fsinfo() or mountfs as replacement to whole /proc/self/mountinfo. It does not make sense. We need per-mountpoint API, for whole mount table use-cases (like findmnt or lsblk) the current mountinfo is good enough.
Karel
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