Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace

Alexander Viro
2001-05-19T08:10:44Z

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:

> It's not done yet, but similar techniques would be applied. I envision
> that a raid device would support operations such as
> open("/dev/md0/slot=5,hot-add=/dev/sda")

Think for a moment and you'll see why it's not only ugly as hell, but simply
won't work.