From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer?
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:56:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015185627.GA7236@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071015070022.4a0c5957@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:00:22AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> that's a choice Ubuntu made in their udev scripts... if you don't like
> it, complain to them.
Keeping the naming as hda while changing the semantics (such as the
reduced number of partitions) would have been differently confusing. We
did look into keeping compatibility symlinks, but decided to just
transition everything to UUIDs instead.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 1:11 What still uses the block layer? Rob Landley
2007-10-13 22:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-14 5:54 ` David Newall
2007-10-14 17:46 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-14 22:35 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-14 23:36 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 1:23 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-15 5:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-15 9:26 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 16:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-15 17:10 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 3:06 ` david
2007-10-16 5:56 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 10:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-16 19:54 ` david
2007-10-16 19:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-16 20:18 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 20:34 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-16 20:56 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 20:55 ` david
2007-10-16 21:49 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-17 9:48 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-17 17:23 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-17 21:04 ` david
2007-10-15 20:29 ` Wilfried Klaebe
2007-10-14 22:24 ` James Bottomley
2007-10-14 23:45 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 1:45 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-15 8:04 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 9:06 ` Julian Calaby
2007-10-15 10:08 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 17:33 ` Greg KH
2007-10-16 2:54 ` david
2007-10-16 4:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-16 4:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-16 4:15 ` david
2007-10-16 4:21 ` Greg KH
2007-10-16 5:00 ` david
[not found] ` <646765f40710150327i78519a0fvaea7a83d5975b180@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200710151511.29748.rob@landley.net>
2007-10-15 23:49 ` Julian Calaby
2007-10-15 10:32 ` Loïc Grenié
2007-10-15 21:09 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 11:19 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-15 21:34 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-15 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 23:41 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-16 2:12 ` david
2007-10-15 13:21 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-15 13:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 13:35 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-15 17:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-15 14:46 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-10-16 2:51 ` david
2007-10-15 13:37 ` OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?) Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 9:52 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 15:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 6:22 ` David Newall
2007-10-20 9:48 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-15 11:40 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-20 9:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-16 3:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 4:10 ` david
2007-10-16 4:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 6:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 4:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 6:38 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-16 9:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 10:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-16 23:59 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-16 7:34 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-18 13:00 ` Rogier Wolff
2007-10-19 6:49 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-19 7:21 ` Rogier Wolff
2007-10-16 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-17 5:34 ` What still uses the block layer? Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-17 6:07 ` david
2007-10-15 6:00 ` Greg KH
2007-10-15 8:36 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 13:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 14:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-15 18:56 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-10-15 17:25 ` Greg KH
2007-10-15 18:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-15 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 6:33 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-17 23:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-15 22:54 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-15 13:10 ` James Bottomley
2007-10-15 21:51 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 0:45 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-10-15 6:51 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 8:37 ` Luben Tuikov
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