Re: [PATCH 10/17] hurd: add fsys_get_children

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-07-12 14:44:31)
> Neal H. Walfield, le Fri 12 Jul 2013 13:52:17 +0200, a écrit :
> > I apologize if you've already explained this someplace else.
> > 
> > If I understand correctly, you want to get all the nodes with active
> > and passive translators.  This potentially requires scanning every
> > inode on an ext3 file system.  This could take a very long time.  Is
> > that really the intention?

That's an interesting point. Btw, settrans --recursive is currently
implemented like this, I'll patch this also to use the translator
list.

> No, just the active ones.

Actually the code also tracks passive translators being set, but of
course we don't know anything about any previously set passive
translators. Richard and me agreed that for most purposes one needs an
mtab file for (e.g. fsck) it is also interesting to know whether a
passive translator is set and what device it would use because any
user could trigger the translator start at any time.

Justus