On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:20:22PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:

Hmmm... that's already possible with the existing holders symlinks,
right?  As Kay said in another message, I don't think we can do
anything about the symlinks at this point.  It already has userland
users, so we'll have to maintain them and there's no reason to create
something else for the same functionality.

Yes, agreed.  My point was that if we have a better system, we could
migrate blkid and other users to new interface, and maybe in a few
years, we can deprecate that interface.  So we do have to maintain
them for at least the medium term, but that shouldn't stop us from
divising a better interface, and then gradually migrating systems to
use that newer and better interface.

						- Ted