watch_mount(), watch_sb(), and fsinfo() (again)
watch_mount(), watch_sb(), and fsinfo() (again)
[Kernel] Posted Feb 24, 2020 22:21 UTC (Mon) by corbet
Filesystems, by design, hide a lot of complexity from users. At times, though, those users need to be able to look inside the black box and extract information about what is going on within a filesystem. Answering this need is David Howells, the creator of a number of filesystem-oriented system calls; in this patch set he tries to add three more, one of which we have seen before and two of which are new.