Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-07-12 21:40:58
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- 2018-07-19 · Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9] · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:00 PM David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:
for example:
fd = fsopen("ext4", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
fsconfig(fd, fsconfig_blockdev, "dev.data", "/dev/sda1", ...);
fsconfig(fd, fsconfig_blockdev, "dev.journal", "/dev/sda2", ...);
Ok, that looks good to me. It also avoids the parsing issue with using
an interface like "write()", where the expectation is that you can
append things etc.
Linus