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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: introduce BTRFS_IOC_GET_DEVS
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:09:57PM +0100, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> > With 3.14 the sysfs interface is available, but the devices under
> >  /sys/fs/btrfs/<fs-uuid>/devices/...
> > are symlinks to the sysfs devices, so this btrfs-specific device
> > information has to be located in a separate directory.
> 
> yes please; it would scale better than the ioctl()s; anyway I suggest 1
> file per property, and not "...one file that holds all the stats
>  about the device"

Well, we can do both, I don't have a preference and both make sense.