From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>,
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Plumbers MD BOF discussion notes
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 00:13:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171006071356.GA1847@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv5517w9.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:39:50AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> Hmmm.. interesting that it is multiple applications.
> Given that both md and dm have been around for years and have layered on
> top of exiting devices without hiding them, it is hard to see how these
> applications have not run into problem before.
>
> There is some precedent for hiding things from /proc/partitions.
> removable devices like CDROMs are hidden, and you can easily hide
> individual devices by setting GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO.
> We might be able to get that through. It is certainly worth writing a
> patch and letting people experiment with it.
No way in hell this would get through. Preemptive NAK right here.
That whole idea is just amazingly stupid, and no one has even explained
a reason for it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-06 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-15 14:27 Linux Plumbers MD BOF discussion notes Shaohua Li
2017-09-15 20:42 ` Coly Li
2017-09-15 21:20 ` Shaohua Li
2017-09-16 0:08 ` NeilBrown
2017-09-18 4:54 ` Shaohua Li
2017-09-18 7:04 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-09-18 8:56 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-01 5:32 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-10-04 0:49 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-04 11:02 ` Artur Paszkiewicz
2017-10-04 11:23 ` Artur Paszkiewicz
2017-10-04 17:30 ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2017-10-04 18:03 ` John Stoffel
2017-10-04 21:18 ` Phil Turmel
2017-10-04 21:41 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-05 18:52 ` Artur Paszkiewicz
2017-10-05 23:39 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-06 7:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-10-06 7:59 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-10-04 17:28 ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2017-10-04 18:13 ` Anthony Youngman
2017-09-18 13:57 ` Wols Lists
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