On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 08:31:06PM +0100, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> On 01/26/2018 07:40 PM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> this is a great work; only few comments:
> 1) I found not intuitive the naming of the function: i.e. you have
>
> btrfs_util_create_snapshot()
> btrfs_util_f_create_snapshot()
>
> To me it seems more clear to have
>
> btrfs_util_create_snapshot()
> btrfs_util_create_snapshot_f()
>
> I think that it is better move the 'f' at the end: at the begin you have the library "btrfs_util", in the middle you have the library function 'create_snapshot', at the end there is the function variant ('f', because it uses a file descriptor).
>
> This is my opinion, even tough there are both examples like you (stat/fstat/lstat) and like my one (capt_get_fd/cap_get_file)...
Yup, I was going off of the fstat/fsync/etc. convention. I don't
particularly like, e.g., btrfs_create_snapshot_f(), but
btrfs_create_snapshot_fd() isn't so bad.
> 2) I find the prefix 'btrfs_util_' a bit verbose. Why not a simple 'btrfs_', even at the cost of a possible renaming of the conflicting function in the current btrfs code.
That's a reasonable idea, I mostly wanted to avoid naming conflicts but
if this is the "one true Btrfs library" it shouldn't be a concern.
I'll wait a bit for people to bikeshed on the naming before I go and
rename everything, but I'm leaning towards the shorter name and
appending _fd instead of prepending f_.
> 3) regarding the btrfs_util_create_snapshot() function, I think that it would be useful to add some more information:
> a) if used recursive is NOT atomic
> b) if used recursive, root capabilities are needed
>
> The same for the other functions: mark with a 'root required' tag all the functions which require the root capabilities.
That's a great point, I'll document that.
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