On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:12:16PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:

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 We also use holders/slaves links in libblkid to evaluate dependencies
 between devices (since 2008).

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Whatever changes are needed, please keep this functionality, it
can be useful.

 Definitely.

Yeah, sure, it's not like I can afford to avoid fixing it at this
point anyway, but I still want to point out it's at the wrong layer
and shouldn't have been added like this, really.  If you want blkid to
identify it, the proper thing to do would be querying blk device for
the claimer and then use claimer-specific method to query them.  It's

 It seems that dependencies (holders/slaves) between devices is pretty
 generic thing. Why do you think that we need claimer-specific method?
 The /sys filesystem is better that ictls in many ways.

not like the current method would make sense for btrfs or whatnot.

 Could you be more verbose, please?

    Karel

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