Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:06:53 -0400 | From | Paul Clements <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nbd: fix device names |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> wrote: > >>It seems more appropriate to call the devices "nbX" rather than "nbdX", >>since that's what the device nodes are actually named. > > > This affects /proc/partitions, /proc/diskstats, and probably other things.
Network block devices don't actually show up in /proc/partitions, but you have a valid point that the other uses would change. Although, I think it's a change for the better.
> I think it's too late to change it.
Fair enough. I can live with this discrepancy, although I think nbd is the only block device driver that has this problem. That's the only reason I sent the patch along...just trying to make nbd consistent with all the other device drivers.
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