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On Di, 31.03.20 22:52, David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) wrote:

> Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > querying all properties of a mount atomically all-at-once,
>
> I don't actually offer that, per se.
>
> Having an atomic all-at-once query for a single mount is actually quite a
> burden on the system.  There's potentially a lot of state involved, much of
> which you don't necessarily need.

Hmm, do it like with statx() and specify a mask for the fields userspace
wants? Then it would be as lightweight as it possibly could be?

Lennart

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