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From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:50:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: file metadata via fs API
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:44 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> So please. Can we just make a simple extended statfs() and be done
> with it, instead of this hugely complex thing that does five different
> things with the same interface and makes it really odd as a result?

How do you propose handling variable size attributes, like the list of
fs options?

Otherwise I'm fine with a statx-like interface for querying fs/mount attributes.

Thanks,
Miklos