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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:20:22PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> Hmmm... that's already possible with the existing holders symlinks,
> right?  As Kay said in another message, I don't think we can do
> anything about the symlinks at this point.  It already has userland
> users, so we'll have to maintain them and there's no reason to create
> something else for the same functionality.

Yes, agreed.  My point was that if we have a better system, we could
migrate blkid and other users to new interface, and maybe in a few
years, we can deprecate that interface.  So we do have to maintain
them for at least the medium term, but that shouldn't stop us from
divising a better interface, and then gradually migrating systems to
use that newer and better interface.

						- Ted