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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] btrfs-progs: random fixes of btrfs-filesystem documentation
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:22:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140820132242.GE1553@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F36E58.1090108@redhat.com>

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:33:44AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Seems like using /proc/partitions would make more sense in that case
> than a recursive scan of every file under /dev, wouldn't it?
> Any details on those reports?

It does make sense.

> I'm just wondering when you might possibly have success looking deep
> into the /dev tree if you didn't have success in /proc/partitions.

I haven't figured out any advantage of /dev.

> It just seems a bit bizarre to have so many ways to get the same info.

I think keeping blkid as default and /proc/filesystems as fallback
should cover the usecases. This meanas that the option -d stays, and the
scanning method can be changed to BTRFS_SCAN_PROC (fi show and dev scan).

      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11  9:11 [PATCH 1/3] btrfs-progs: random fixes of btrfs-filesystem documentation Satoru Takeuchi
2014-08-11 17:05 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-11 17:14   ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-11 23:55     ` Satoru Takeuchi
2014-08-11 23:51   ` Satoru Takeuchi
2014-08-12  0:07     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-12  7:25       ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] " Satoru Takeuchi
2014-08-12  7:45         ` [PATCH 1/3 v3] " Satoru Takeuchi
2014-08-12  8:06           ` [PATCH 1/3 v4] " Satoru Takeuchi
2014-08-19 15:07             ` David Sterba
2014-08-19 15:10   ` [PATCH 1/3] " David Sterba
2014-08-19 15:33     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-20 13:22       ` David Sterba [this message]

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