On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 01:01:49PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

Added a few more CCs.

On Tue 16-03-21 12:29:16, Jan Kara wrote:

quoted

On Thu 04-03-21 13:35:38, Sascha Hauer wrote:

quoted

Current quotactl syscall uses a path to a block device to specify the
filesystem to work on which makes it unsuitable for filesystems that
do not have a block device. This series adds a new syscall quotactl_path()
which replaces the path to the block device with a mountpath, but otherwise
behaves like original quotactl.

This is done to add quota support to UBIFS. UBIFS quota support has been
posted several times with different approaches to put the mountpath into
the existing quotactl() syscall until it has been suggested to make it a
new syscall instead, so here it is.

I'm not posting the full UBIFS quota series here as it remains unchanged
and I'd like to get feedback to the new syscall first. For those interested
the most recent series can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/810463/

Thanks. I've merged the two patches into my tree and will push them to
Linus for the next merge window.

So there are some people at LWN whining that quotactl_path() has no dirfd
and flags arguments for specifying the target. Somewhat late in the game
but since there's no major release with the syscall and no userspace using
it, I think we could still change that. What do you think? What they
suggest does make some sense. But then, rather then supporting API for
million-and-one ways in which I may wish to lookup a fs object, won't it be
better to just pass 'fd' in the new syscall (it may well be just O_PATH fd
AFAICT) and be done with that?

This sounds like a much cleaner interface to me. If we agree on this I
wouldn't mind spinning this patch for another few rounds.

Sascha

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