From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Mark Lord <lsml@rtr.ca>,
dougg@torque.net, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New QStor SATA/RAID Driver for 2.6.9-rc2
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:13:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915131311.GD642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915125545.GE4111@suse.de>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:55:46PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> The remaining piece (well the biggest one at least) is a nice /dev/disk
> abstraction. That's currently the biggest obstacle to nice generic block
> drivers, not the infrastructure.
I'll just take this opportunity to plug /dev/drive over /dev/disk.
Not only does it avoid the disc/disk dialect problem, it is also more
accurate in the case of removable media.
--
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon
the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse
to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince
himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 15:43 [PATCH] New QStor SATA/RAID Driver for 2.6.9-rc2 Mark Lord
2004-09-14 16:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 16:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 16:39 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-09-14 17:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 4:22 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-09-15 4:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 12:47 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-15 12:55 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-15 13:13 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2004-09-15 16:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 17:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 7:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-14 15:42 Mark Lord
2004-09-14 16:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 17:14 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 17:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 17:27 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 17:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 17:51 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 17:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 18:03 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 18:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 18:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 18:25 ` James Bottomley
2004-09-14 18:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 18:51 ` James Bottomley
2004-09-15 2:39 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-15 2:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 12:35 ` Mark Lord
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20040915131311.GD642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk \
--to=willy@debian.org \
--cc=axboe@suse.de \
--cc=dougg@torque.net \
--cc=jgarzik@pobox.com \
--cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lsml@rtr.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.