Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 11:23:03 EST


Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Not sure what you mean. I think it shows precisely the information
> > > Karel asked for.
> >
> > It's not atomic.
>
> Yes it is.

No, it really isn't - though it could be made so.

ext4_show_mount(), for example, doesn't lock against "mount -o remount", so
the configuration can be changing whilst it's being rendered to text.

David