[PATCH] Statlite - without VFS changes

Ralph Böhme rb at sernet.de
Sat Dec 27 01:44:55 MST 2014


On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 03:13:51PM +0530, Shekhar Amlekar wrote:
> The initial patch I floated proposed an interface similar
> to what you mention -
> 
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-December/104059.html
> 
> However, it required changes to many VFS modules,
> As you know, there are modules that change path
> (catia, cap, mh, scannedonly), some that change the
> stat struct (fake_perms, fake_acls, fruit), and some just
> audit vfs calls (full audit, time audit). Also, the opaque
> modules (ceph, glusterfs) needed to handle the new
> VFS call.

ah, this slipped through my inbox, sorry.

Now this approach is more verbose, but it's simple and doesn't
overload an existing VFS call with additional semantics.

Cheerio!
-Ralph

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