Re: [PATCH] statx: stx_vol

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Mar 08 2024 - 06:02:50 EST


On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 12:39:58PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 10:18:22AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 05:02:03PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > Add a new statx field for (sub)volume identifiers.
> > >
> > > This includes bcachefs support; we'll definitely want btrfs support as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/2uvhm6gweyl7iyyp2xpfryvcu2g3padagaeqcbiavjyiis6prl@yjm725bizncq/
> > > Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > As I've said many times before I'm supportive of this and would pick up
> > a patch like this. There's definitely a lot of userspace that would make
> > use of this that I'm aware of. If the btrfs people could provide an Ack
> > on this to express their support here that would be great.
> >
> > And it would be lovely if we could expand the commit message a bit and
> > do some renaming/bikeshedding. Imho, STATX_SUBVOLUME_ID is great and
> > then stx_subvolume_id or stx_subvol_id. And then subvolume_id or
> > subvol_id for the field in struct kstat.
>
> _id is too redundant for me, can we just do STATX_SUBVOL/statx.subvol?

Fine by me.