Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:35:26 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: regarding major number of block extended devt |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Note that addition /partitions/ is somewhat unlikely to be useful, since > existing code will have to search through random crap in sysfs to look > for the partition directories anyway.
Currently it has to list /sys/block/DEV/DEV[-]N/. With proper classification, it can do /sys/block/*/partitions/*. We'll need to keep around symlinks at the root level. It also plays well with how other subsystems have been changing.
-- tejun
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