[$] Topics from the virtual filesystem layer
In the first filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), virtual filesystem (VFS) layer co-maintainer Christian B [...]
I've just released mount-insight v0.1 https://gitlab.com/zygoon/mount-insight/-/releases/v0.1
Here's an excerpt from the release notes:
This is the initial release of mount-insight, a tool created to explore and display the data provided by the statmount system call.
Some features are only going to work once Linux 6.15 is released. The code needs to see matching, up-to-date headers for userspace Linux APIs as well.
CC @brauner
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Oh yeah, I already mentioned this a while ago but I also added support for pidfds in Linux coredumps.
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been extended so userspace can instruct the kernel to install a pidfd for the
crashing process into the usermode helper process, e.g., systemd-coredump.
I released a new version of the #Landlock crate: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/rust-landlock/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#v042
We can now easily restrict signal sending and connections to abstract UNIX sockets for #rustlang programs. The documentation and tests have also been improved. Last but not least, a few new features will be useful for the upcoming Landlock configuration format.
$ cat /etc/almalinux-release && getenforce AlmaLinux Kitten release 10 (Lion Cub) EnforcingNice. Very nice. @almalinux
Well folks, I'm on vacation again, and you know I could not resist...