From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aristeu Rozanski Subject: Re: [RFC] cgroup TODOs Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:21:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20120917132102.GD28505@cathedrallabs.org> References: <20120913205827.GO7677@google.com> <20120914183641.GA2191@cathedrallabs.org> <1347783557.2463.1.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1347783557.2463.1.camel-sFMDBYUN5F8GjUHQrlYNx2Wm91YjaHnnhRte9Li2A+AAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Neil Horman , "Serge E. Hallyn" , containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Michal Hocko , Thomas Graf , Paul Mackerras , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Johannes Weiner , Tejun Heo , cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Paul Turner , Ingo Molnar List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:19:17AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 14:36 -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote: > > also, heard about the desire of having a device namespace instead with > > support for translation ("sda" -> "sdf"). If anyone see immediate use for > > this please let me know. > > That sounds like a really bad idea to me. We've spent ages training > users that the actual sd name of their device doesn't matter and they > should use UUIDs or WWNs instead ... why should they now care inside > containers? True, bad example on my part. The use case I had in mind when I wrote that can be solved by symbolic links. -- Aristeu