[Gluster-devel] Support for statx in 4.0

[Ravishankar N]

On 06/12/2017 01:21 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Linux 4.11 has added support for a new system call, statx [1]. statx 
> provides more information than what stat() does today. Given that 
> there could be potential users for this new interface it would be nice 
> to have statx supported in 4.0. We could review if some of our 
> translators, nfs & smb accesses leverage this interface for some 
> enhanced functionality.
>
> I have not yet checked the current state of support for statx in fuse. 
> Needless to say it would be useful to have it in there. If somebody's 
> interested in working this out across the entire stack (fuse & 
> gluster), do let us know here!
>

I can take a shot at this.  A cursory look seems to indicate support in 
fuse as well, since the syscall is basically overloading vfs_getattr()
and the patch contains changes to fuse_getattr to accommodate the new 
params. So it might just be the gluster bits where we need to introduce 
the fop.

Regards,
Ravi

> Regards,
> Vijay
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8982111/
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