From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partitions
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:29:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020724192914.GA13180@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207241448540.14656-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:02:50PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Basically, gendisks are crap. Why on the earth they were created as
> per-major objects instead of per-disk ones is a mistery, but whatever
> reason it had, it had acted as serious source of mess. For many years.
> Right now I'm cleaning that mess up in 2.5 and I have nothing nice to
> say about the bright guys responsible for its creation. Sorry.
[amused] Good to see that you now understand that permanent
disk data is not stored in a struct block_device and that
the way to removal of the arrays is nearly independent of
struct block_device and instead dependent on a replacement
of struct gendisk.
[berating] However, your annoyed words are not fair to Drew Eckhardt.
Ten years ago, when he created struct gendisk, most of the problems
you mention did not exist yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 16:11 partitions David Chow
2002-07-24 16:18 ` partitions Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-07-24 16:32 ` partitions Randy.Dunlap
2002-07-24 18:47 ` partitions Andries Brouwer
2002-07-24 19:02 ` partitions Alexander Viro
2002-07-24 19:29 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2002-07-25 12:09 ` partitions David Chow
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