[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 12/25] o2cb: Add ops add-heartbeat, remove-heartbeat and heartbeat-mode

[Sunil Mushran]

On 06/28/2010 11:25 AM, Joel Becker wrote:
>
>> While a full path is a bit unfriendly, it is hardly limiting. Most users
>> provide full paths to devices anycase. In real life, /dev is rarely a cwd.
>>      
> 	It goes against the expectation of all path arguments to almost
> every program out there.  I still think it is very antisocial to violate
> those expectations.  It doesn't hurt to support this.  If you really
> want to err on the side of uuids, you could even assume that any string
> without / is a uuid unless there is a block device of the same name in
> the current directory.  That is, if there is a directory or regular file
> of the same name, you ignore that and treat it as a uuid.  Only if the
> name points to a block device do you read the device to get a uuid.
>    

ok