Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:28 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: regarding major number of block extended devt |
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Tejun Heo wrote: >> >> (a) we can't do anything about, but (b) we can, by introducing a >> partition number attribute in sysfs. > > Yeah, that would certainly be a nice addition. Also, if partitions > are made proper classes, they'll be easily enumerable by > /sys/block/*/partitions/*. > > Jens, what do you think? >
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.
-hpa
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