Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:00:18 +0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] getting misc stats/attributes via xattr API | From | Abel Wu <> |
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Hi Miklos and anyone interested in this proposal, is there any update on this? Sorry that I didn't find any..
Thanks & Best regards, Abel
On 5/3/22 8:23 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This is a simplification of the getvalues(2) prototype and moving it to the > getxattr(2) interface, as suggested by Dave. > > The patch itself just adds the possibility to retrieve a single line of > /proc/$$/mountinfo (which was the basic requirement from which the fsinfo > patchset grew out of). > > But this should be able to serve Amir's per-sb iostats, as well as a host of > other cases where some statistic needs to be retrieved from some object. Note: > a filesystem object often represents other kinds of objects (such as processes > in /proc) so this is not limited to fs attributes. > > This also opens up the interface to setting attributes via setxattr(2). >
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