Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:43:14 +0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again |
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Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:43:01AM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > Nicholas Wourms writes: > > > > > > A quick grep shows that Intermezzo FS still uses kdevname if > > > you've turned on debugging (fs/intermezzo/sysctl.c). As for > > > pending stuff, both Reiser4 & pktcdvd also use it. So I > > > > reiser4 switched to bdevname(). > > Although bdevname is the simplest replacement it's usually the wrong > one. If you refer to a filesystem with it use sb->s_id, if you refer > to a block device you normally want to use partition_name() - it gives > much nicer output.
Thank you for the information.
We need something to name per super block directory under /sys/fs/reiser4. It probably makes sense to have a convention for this shared by all file systems living on top of block devices, like using sb->s_id.
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