[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [RFC] changing default block device detection method and more

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Apart from what you've pointed out, we have also to deal with multipath
> and lvm.

scanning /dev will catch all of those automatically without special tricks.

> Have you looked into lib/filters/filter.c in LVM2. That starts
> scanning from /proc/devices.

No. I am avoiding any interaction with /proc as many subsystems are moving
towards /sys and they won't keep /proc interface compat forever. Basically I
don't want to end up rewriting this code any time soon :)

> blkid was added before upstream picked up the changes. We have no intention
> of making our lives harder. ;)

Can we than kill it from the tree if it's barely required?

Fabio

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