Statsfs: A Proposed Linux File-System For Kernel Statistics

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Statsfs: A Proposed Linux File-System For Kernel Statistics

Statsfs is a new RAM-based file-system proposal by a Red Hat engineer that is designed for exposing kernel statistics to user-space...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Statfs-Linux-Statistics-FS

[milkylainen]

I am not sure if I would be in favor of yet another "special" pseudo filesystem.
procfs, sysfs, debugfs, configfs, usbfs, statfs... etc.
But then again, nobody asked me.

[bitman]

We need a c api, not another thing text thing that everyone will write parsing functions for over and over.

[zxy_thf]

I am not sure if I would be in favor of yet another "special" pseudo filesystem.
procfs, sysfs, debugfs, configfs, usbfs, statfs... etc.
But then again, nobody asked me.

The current "mount" output is horrible for human to read.
I counted the output on my system and there're already 11 different file systems out there.

They really should propose a unified framework before the number of pseudo fs gets out of control imo.

[zxy_thf]

We need a c api, not another thing text thing that everyone will write parsing functions for over and over.

I agree, but someone will tell you this is against Unix philosophy ("Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.")

[uid313]

We need a c api, not another thing text thing that everyone will write parsing functions for over and over.

The Unix philosophy is everything is a file.

[flux242]

it makes me flinch every time I read - a Red Hat engineer proposed/implemented something...

[bitman]

I agree, but someone will tell you this is against Unix philosophy ("Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.")

There is a dogma and there is a real world. Or take removal of AllowDeactivateGrabs from X11 as an example. It was removed more than 10 years ago and for a decade nobody implemented an alternative. As a result it is not possible to debug a GUI application without losing your mouse. Before anyone speaks up - i know all those retarded workarounds. Things like sysfs and AllowDeactivateGrabs and many other things is why Linux on the desktop is such a meme.

The Unix philosophy is everything is a file.

It is nice up to a point. Linux is overdoing it for a long time which by now is simply not practical and borderline stupid.

[Raka555]

It is nice up to a point. Linux is overdoing it for a long time which by now is simply not practical and borderline stupid.

And so is the whole web.
Serializing to and parsing from text interfaces the whole time is retarded. Something useful could have been done with the processing power.

But I guess it is like everything else today - For programmer convenience.

[k1e0x]

We need a c api, not another thing text thing that everyone will write parsing functions for over and over.

Agree. Linux has too many pseudo filesystems. It also may break compatibility with other Unix'es.