Re: [Drbd-dev] [GIT PULL] drbd-8.3 updates

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2012-10-03 15:49, Philipp Reisner wrote:
>> Thanks, one question before this is pulled in:
>>> Philipp Reisner (6):
>>>       drbd: Add a drbd directory to sysfs
>>>       drbd: expose the data generation identifiers via sysfs
>>
>> What are these? It's sitting in /sys/block/<dev>/drbd/, I don't see any
>> documentation or justification for that.
>>
>> Why isn't it off in debugfs or similar instead?
> 
> The long-time goal is to get rid of the /proc/drbd virtual file, and
> present the information that was there in a more structured way in /sys.
> 
> This patch adds a very first step into that direction. Later we intend to
> have here things like the connections state, device roles, statistics
> counters there.
> 
> When coming up with the layout we used the sysfs presence of software raid 
> as example.

Software raid is different, though, in that it's a class/type of device.
So for drbd, I'd still recommend you look outside of the regular
/sys/block hierarchy for adding something like this.

> I have removed it from this pull-request, so that there is more time for
> consideration before the next merge window.

Thanks, pulled.

-- 
Jens Axboe